Nothing is stopping you running vanilla Redis... And none of this touches that codebase, as they're modules you could opt to install/load manually?

Open source has changed a lot recently. Most people/companies do open source to make money. The initial phase is just to make the software popular enough so that a money-making business can be built around it.

Frankly, I don't see anything bad with it. Those who don't want to spend money get it for free and those who can afford will pay for it.

This is I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-Not-Open-Source™, not the real thing.

Is it? I mean, how? The core Redis software is still open source as it's always been, with the same (well, improved over time) functionality, whereas the closed-source for-profit components are not even 'paywalled features' but clearly separate higher-layer products building on the core (visualisation, ML, time series, full-text search, graph structures, &c). To me this is a paradigmatic example of well-done open-core.

Isn't this just a collection of addons/plugins on top of the "actual Redis"?

If so, what's your objection? To me this amounts to more or less just expanding the Redis ecosystem, which feels like a win-win.

It's the hot take culture. Some people see internet forums as a vessel to unleash their toxicity.

I don't see how it's 'toxic' to express dissatisfaction with mission creep in a piece of software. It's a totally normal, reasonable criticism, and from the author's point of view is far more useful than their staying silent.

i would agree that this was "mission creep" if it those were not plugins. you can still use 100% vanilla redis without any of this.

It doesn't change Redis. redis-server will stay simple as it always been, redis-stack-server extends redis-server with addition functionality for those who need more low latency data access more than Redis K/V.

Are you paying for redis? I know I am not. Also, you comment is unfounded because redis is still redis, this is a stack build on top of it.

Seems great to me. The AGPL style license is a bit much, but they have to make money somehow.

If you read the license carefully you'll notice it's much more permissive than AGPL, and allows you as an end user (as long as you're not developing a database) to do with it whatever you want.

GP likely meant AGPL-style as "MIT/BSD with limitations on usage, like how AGPL is MIT/BSD with a limitation on licensing of client code".

Yea I agree, I love redis. I have to admit seeing this group of services was a little strange, but your comment about enterprise money seems on the nose.

> redis was such a beautiful, elegant and pragmatic code base that was extremely effective at what it does

Doesn't seem like that has changed to me