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Valkey is going strong still. So is Jellyfin, and Gitea/Forgejo.

Valkey made me forget redis existed in about a day. If I say redis now I actually mean valkey.

Why is valkey better?

They aren’t trying to sell me anything. Better multi-threading, better memory usage, open source, open governance. Redis went corporate.

mariadb

MariaDB feels more like the original devs sold the brand and kept business as usual with a new name, not a community fork.