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Re: Redis Stack

#11

Post by akmittal »

a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

Open source has changed a lot recently. Most people/companies do open source to make money. The initial phase is just to make the software popular enough so that a money-making business can be built around it.

Frankly, I don't see anything bad with it. Those who don't want to spend money get it for free and those who can afford will pay for it.

Re: Redis Stack

#12

Post by dikei »

You can really build pretty much anything on top of a K-V store, but I would hate to be vendor-locked into Redis ecosystem.

Re: Redis Stack

#13

Post by eternityforest »

a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

Seems great to me. The AGPL style license is a bit much, but they have to make money somehow.

Re: Redis Stack

#14

Post by gkorland »

a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

It doesn't change Redis. redis-server will stay simple as it always been, redis-stack-server extends redis-server with addition functionality for those who need more low latency data access more than Redis K/V.

Re: Redis Stack

#15

Post by gkorland »

eternityforest wrote: post #13
a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

Seems great to me. The AGPL style license is a bit much, but they have to make money somehow.

If you read the license carefully you'll notice it's much more permissive than AGPL, and allows you as an end user (as long as you're not developing a database) to do with it whatever you want.

Re: Redis Stack

#16

Post by fmajid »

akmittal wrote: post #11
a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

Open source has changed a lot recently. Most people/companies do open source to make money. The initial phase is just to make the software popular enough so that a money-making business can be built around it. Frankly, I don't see anything bad with it. Those who don't want to spend money get it for free and those who can afford will pay for it.

This is I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Open-Source™, not the real thing.

Re: Redis Stack

#17

Post by gkorland »

dikei wrote: post #12

You can really build pretty much anything on top of a K-V store, but I would hate to be vendor-locked into Redis ecosystem.

We tried to keep it as vendor natural as we could, for example in the Graph API we picked the openCypher query language and in the JSON API we used JSONPath.

Re: Redis Stack

#20

Post by tehbeard »

a2800276 wrote: post #10

What a crazy mess of services, so sad to see. redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does. It looks like they are trying their hardest to make it more enterprisy to squeeze every last cent out.

Nothing is stopping you running vanilla Redis... And none of this touches that codebase, as they're modules you could opt to install/load manually?
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