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I noticed a while ago that the front page of the Kyoto/Tokyo database author's webpage bears only the message "We are rearing children."

http://fallabs.com/

Has the fork author discussed with Mikio the implications of forking and the need for a commercial license for proprietary applications? It's a shame that development stopped on Kyoto Cabinet and Tycoon. I personally learned a lot about efficiently using on disk storage from the source code.

I've tried to reach him a few months ago, mainly to know if he was intending to publish a new release with (at the very least) the fix for the missing "unistd.h" include breaking compilation (which is a one-liner), but got no answers back.

The original code is licensed under the GPLv3 and (of course) this fork doesn't change that in any way.

In my experience Mikio is very hard to reach. This fork does not surprise me. We saw the same type of abandon-ware with the Tokyo suite prior to Kyoto. It wouldn't surprise me if he isn't working on something new.

I believe he went to Google.

what does this provide in comparison to say, Redis?

Larger-than-RAM data and on-disk databases, mostly.

Kyoto Tycoon for modern systems