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Comment by Thaxll | Hacker News Reader

"Rapidly", so most people don't even know the story about Redis changes and I would say 99.99 never heard about Valkey.

Redis (64.7k stars): Excluding merges, 8 authors have pushed 8 commits to unstable and 10 commits to all branches. On unstable, 173 files have changed and there have been 2,002 additions and 3,194 deletions.

Valkey (12k stars): Excluding merges, 41 authors have pushed 147 commits to unstable and 181 commits to all branches. On unstable, 473 files have changed and there have been 10,635 additions and 9,663 deletions.

You may as well just start mentally teaching yourself to alias redis to valkey.

Those numbers mean nothing because obviously a fork in its inception will have a burst of activity. Half of those changes are probably just renaming redis => valkey, too.

Let's check the numbers in 6 months or a year for a truly meaningful figure about the health of each project.

Based on your logic “activity” may never be a good metric for usage.

I don't know what gave you that idea?

I'm fine with using the activity comparison to declare a winner.

But valkey was created a few weeks ago, obviously it's going to have a burst of activity. However most forks die off rather quickly after the initial burst of enthusiasm. That one might be different, because it has corporate sponsors.

So, in 6 months, do the exact same comparison (recent activity, # of recent contributors) and it'll be good enough for me.

And that’s also true insofar as it’ll never be a perfect measure and in some cases (such as comparing a mature project to a brand new fork), it’s a bad measure.

My thoughts exactly, same thing with OpenTofu recently

How are we supposed to interpret these numbers? In its whole history, Redis has had 8 contributors? And in less than a month Valkey has added 33 contributors?

But what value have those 8 vs 41 authors added to the project with those changes? I think that's the primary concern here.

We are experiencing exponential growth in the last week, going from 1 user to 2.

100% week over week growth is nothing to sneeze at

Relevant xkcd https://xkcd.com/605/

Ah, I was expecting https://xkcd.com/1102/

Linear growth in husbands? Pathetic. You'd need at least quadratic to amount to anything.

Once the big cloud providers start to charge extra for Redis over Valkey in a few months everybody will know.

Valkey just released their first stable version 3 days ago. So it might take another week or two until it's popular ;)

At the company, I mentioned Valkey, and no one had any clue what I was taking about (we use Redis).

I was aware of the license change but not of the forks. Now I am.

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