Redis 8.0 Open Source Comeback and Valkey Performance Showdown
2025-05-31
Redis Inc.'s controversial decision last year to close-source Redis shook the open-source community, but the community responded by forking Redis into Valkey. Now, Redis 8.0 is open-source again, and the original creator, Antirez, has returned. This article benchmarks Valkey 8.1 against Redis 8.0, showing Valkey outperforms Redis 8.0 in throughput and latency, especially with I/O threads enabled. It also explores core allocation optimization techniques and the limitations of benchmarking.
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