
The exciting new world of Redis
If you are a developer who wants the most feature-rich, high-performance version of Redis, your choice is clear: Redis instead of Fork. If you have the time and inclination to wade into ideological debate in the following areas: Open source Permission, well, you might make another choice. However, if you just want to get your work done, and want a great repository that was historically mostly caching but now offers more features, then you will choose Redis over its forks, Pedestrian walking machine.
Redis CEO Rowan Trollope said this in an interview. “There is no doubt that Redis is a more powerful platform since we launched Redis 8.0 with all the features of the Redis Stack,” he said. He substantiates this statement by listing “a whole bunch of stuff” that Valkey doesn’t offer, at least not equally: vector searches, real-time indexing and query engines, probabilistic data types, JSON support, etc. Google Cloud, for example, has begun to fill some of these gaps, At least in pre-release versionssuch as Google’s Memorystore.
This is what the CEO says, right? What would a serious technical expert say about Redis? It might be hard to find a more credible Redis expert than Redis founder Salvatore Sanfilippo, who recently Return to Redis community (and company) He left in 2020. Why come back? Among other reasons, Sanfilippo wants to help shape Redis and empower the world with generative artificial intelligence. In his words, “Recently I started thinking that sorted sets could inspire a new data type where the score is actually a vector.” Trollope said: “Redis has a real opportunity to become a core part of the genAI infrastructure stack.” Trollope noted that discussions about licensing may be interesting “popcorn fodder” and focus on the past, but the real focus should be on the future of Redis as an integral part of the artificial intelligence stack.
2024-12-23 09:00:00