The race to replace Redis

On March 21, Redis Ltd. announced that the Redis "In-memory data store" project would now be released under non-free, source-available licenses, starting with Redis 7.4. Redis quickly became popular as part of the NoSQL movement, and he was hired by VMware to work on Redis development in 2010. Eventually, Redis Labs settled on a dual-license scheme of SSPL and its own Redis Source Available License for its modules. In announcing the name change, Redis again committed to open source, and said that the company renaming "Will not affect the licensing of open source Redis, which has always been and will continue to be BSD licensed". It listed a core team of five members, three from Redis as well as Zhao Zhao from Alibaba and Madelyn Olson from AWS. On March 20, Redis announced that "All future versions of Redis will be released with source-available licenses", specifically the SSPL and RSAL. Rowan Trollope, Redis CEO, wrote that maintaining the BSD license was now "At odds with our ability to drive Redis successfully into the future". In the March 20 announcement, Trollope wrote that "Cloud service providers will be able to deliver Redis 7.4 only after agreeing to licensing terms with Redis, the maintainers of the Redis code" but, that "Nothing changes for the Redis developer community who will continue to enjoy permissive licensing under the dual license". It is a remote cache-store that can cache and manage the same types of data as Redis and is designed to be compatible with the Redis serialization protocol.