About 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made the transition from permissive open source licensing.
The race to replace Redis
According to a survey by open source database support biz Percona, the move to the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) has motivated nearly three-quarters of the 151 developers and DBAs surveyed to look for alternatives.
In March, Redis—the company formerly known as Redis Labs—switched from the BSD Clause 3 license, a more permissive arrangement that allows developers to make commercial use of the code without paying for the popular key-value database.
At the time, Redis said the source code would continue to be freely available to developers, customers, and partners through the Redis Community Edition while future Redis open-source releases would "unify the Redis core with the Redis Stack, including search, JSON, vector, probabilistic, and time series data models in a free, easy-to-use package as downloadable software."
