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Jul 9, 2026 · Databases

Why Valkey Overtook Redis After the License Change: A Deep Dive

After Redis switched from a BSD to a closed‑source license in March 2024, the community quickly forked Valkey, which within a year surpassed Redis in throughput, latency, and memory usage, gained support from major cloud providers and Linux distributions, and continues to accelerate while Redis struggles to regain its position.