Redis modules and the Commons Clause [LWN.net]

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 22, 2018 21:08 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
Parent article: Redis modules and the Commons Clause

I feel for Redis. They are widely used but large players like Google or Amazon are not really interested in supporting it, they all have their own in-house databases that are used in place of Redis.

And smaller players don't have resources (or want to) support such a basic component as the database.

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Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 22, 2018 22:15 UTC (Wed) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link] (4 responses)

*cough*

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/redis-labs#sectio...

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 23, 2018 13:26 UTC (Thu) by bengen (guest, #14957) [Link] (3 responses)

For the last 3 years we see... 2015-06: +$15m, 2016-07: +$14m, 2017-08: +$44m.

The timing would be about right for negotiations about further funding. Perhaps some early investors really want to extract some profit from their investment, right now?

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 24, 2018 1:07 UTC (Fri) by jberkus (guest, #55561) [Link] (2 responses)

I believe that they just received another round of funding, from Goldman Sachs and Bain Capital, immediately before announcing this "Commons Clause" thing. Draw your own conclusions there.

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 24, 2018 14:44 UTC (Fri) by jubal (subscriber, #67202) [Link] (1 responses)

Bain Capital, isn't this the “investment” company Romney was involved with?

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 24, 2018 21:00 UTC (Fri) by armijn (subscriber, #3653) [Link]

Yup, that's the one.

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 22, 2018 23:54 UTC (Wed) by gerdesj (subscriber, #5446) [Link] (3 responses)

"I feel for Redis. They are widely used " - replace Redis with Linux or *BSD or whatever in that comment and have another go mate.

I respect you as a commentard - have another go.

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 22, 2018 23:58 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Linux is used in core systems by Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and other huge companies. It's business-critical for them.

Redis? Not so much. It's used in a lot of small and mid-range companies, and it's not a good place to be.

FreeBSD suffers from the same issues - it's not used a lot, so it's moving at fraction of Linux's speed.

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 23, 2018 7:03 UTC (Thu) by nhippi (subscriber, #34640) [Link]

Well all those companies contribute massively back to Linux. Well, perhaps except Amazon, whose contributions back to upstream open sources projects is pitiful.

Redis modules and the Commons Clause

Posted Aug 25, 2018 18:55 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214) [Link]

Can we *not* adopt this commenting style (name calling, etc), please?