CEO argues more restrictive licensing was key to DB refresh, and says team 'expected' the fork
Redis is the most popular database on AWS, which is, of course, the most popular cloud. The fact the relatively little known database, which launched in 2009, punches above its weight against well-established rivals might owe a lot to its reputation as a handy off-the-shelf cache developers know and love. Yet for the last couple of years, it has been champing at the bit to be much more.
"As a result of changing the license, we were able to bring all of the technology that we had been working on a separate distribution, and combine them into the new licensed, free software Community Edition. That's a big benefit, for developers," he tell us. In April, cloud giants AWS, Google, and Oracle responded to Redis's shift in licensing, joining with the Linux Foundation to create an open source fork of Redis called. We think that it's much better for us to be able to innovate freely on our code base without fear of code being taken by cloud service providers and resold as part of their offers," he says.
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