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Changed the first few words to introduce the project more clearly

After recent edits the first few words stressed on the current sponsor, instead of stating what the Redis project is about. I verified with other Wikipedia pages that this is not the norm and edited the article to provide a more incremental introduction, citing the author and the sponsor later. -- Michael. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.43.107.99 (talk) 20:41, 26 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Moved Redis (data store) to Redis

The Redis data store is the primary topic for "Redis". "Redis" meaning "Romani people" is not even mentioned in the Romani people article and I will not object if the disambiguation intro or the disambiguation page gets deleted. See: Talk:Redis (disambiguation) for more info. Rafał Pocztarski 08:57, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Copy of the Talk:Redis (disambiguation) comment in case the page gets deleted:

Redis (disambiguation) was moved to Redis quoting Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages but the Wikipedia:WikiProject Disambiguation/Malplaced disambiguation pages#Possible primary topic section is relevant here. The Redis (data store) article is the primary topic, see WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. There is only one other meaning mentioned in the disambiguation article, namely the Romani people, but in fact the word "Redis" is not even mentioned in the article on Romani people and it doesn't seem to be widely used in English. That is why I am moving the current (disambiguating) Redis article to Redis (disambiguation), moving the article on the Redis data store to Redis and adding a reference to the Romani people to the Redis data store article. When the only other meaning of "Redis" will be directly referenced in the primary topic article then the Redis (disambiguation) article will not be needed any more and can be removed (see Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Disambiguation links) but I am not removing it right now. As I said the word "Redis" is not mentioned in the Romani people article so even the disambiguation link in the Redis article may not be necessary - I am adding it just in case but I will not object if anyone thinks it should be removed. Rafał Pocztarski 07:52, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Adding clustering section?

A subject that is much talked about in the Redis community is clustering. Redis doesn't currently have it (limited to one node) but it is being developed and should be released soon. I think the article should cover this topic and say what Redis currently has, what is being developed and when it is supposed to be released. I can add a section covering this subject with a few references from the Redis project site and the Antirez blog. Any objections? Anne.naimoli (talk) 16:27, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I see there are no objections, so I'm adding a clustering section. Anne.naimoli (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:34, 25 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Redis has clustering as of April 1, 2015. People that know more about it than I do will have to update the entry, though. Theclapp (talk) 20:57, 3 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Propose adding section about cloud deployment

It's quite common these days to deploy Redis on the cloud. There are two ways of doing this - just installing Redis on a cloud machine instance, or using a hosted Redis service. I've already written about this in the Cloud database page and more recently on the NoSQL page (see the cloud NoSQL database section at the end), there are several examples there of deploying Redis on the cloud. I could import the relevant information and references into the Redis page and perhaps add a few more options to give a complete picture. Any thoughts? Anne.naimoli (talk) 11:33, 2 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Once again I see no objections, so moving forward. Anne.naimoli (talk) 12:39, 5 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Pronounciation

How does one pronounce "Redis"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.143.102.247 (talk) 18:21, 12 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The FAQ says it stands for "REmote DIctionary Server", so I would say it's pronounced ree-diss, which sort of rhymes with knee-kiss. That said, I've heard it pronounced reh-diss or red-diss. The FAQ does not list a canonical pronunciation. Theclapp (talk) 13:09, 4 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I'm the author of Redis, the correct pronunciation is "red-dees". It's like reading "Redis" in Italian, which is unambiguously read the same way by all the Italian speakers. (Salvatore Sanfilippo, 11 March 2017 17:06 UTC)

Edit Request

This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered.

Hi, I’m contracted by Redis Labs to write about and add to the open-sourced Redis effort. I’ve mocked up a few changes to the article in my sandbox. These are as follows.

Added the geospatial type to "Data types" section,
Added a modules section,
Removed out-of-date/pre-release information from the "Clustering" section and added current information.

Due to my potential COI, I won’t make these edits directly. It would be greatly appreciated if someone would take a look and implement my suggestions or give feedback. Thanks!

Usikyle (talk) 20:40, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to mark this as answered, seeing that the request has already been fulfilled. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 16:52, 14 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Language bindings

Since Redis implements Client-Server architecture it is more accurate to specify language clients instead of "language bindings" in the supported languages section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.206.156.72 (talk) 09:23, 10 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

"Slave" versus "Replica"

Redis itself has deprecated use of the the word "slave", and instead refers to nodes as either "masters", or "replicas". Should this article be changed to the matching terminology? On the other hand, "master-slave architecture" has well-understood meaning in computing, and that's the architecture Redis is using, regardless of the naming it uses. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.248.172.247 (talk) 14:35, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I Do Think there is no use for such change, its quite well understood in the grand scheme of things its better to stop the Merge. Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 12:56, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is Salvatore Sanfilippo presented too prominently?

Fully half of the article's sidebar (or more depending on how you measure) is filled by a picture of Salvatore Sanfilippo. The first paragraph of the History section also focuses on him, and the details of how he started Redis. Is this aspect important to a random visitor's understanding of Redis? Might we downplay it a bit (e.g. remove that picture)? -- Dan Griscom (talk) 15:41, 29 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Openwashing

I don't know how this article kept parroting the Redis Labs talking points for so many years. I see a POV edit was made by an account without any other edit. Nemo 07:18, 21 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Article says "...Redis is the most popular NoSQL database"?

I might not have sources because I am feeling lazy but I don't see how Redis can be the most popular nosql database, especially because it is not as general-purpose as many others. Please how is Redis more popular than MongoDB for example? HandsomeBoy (talk) 11:26, 13 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Merge proposal

I propose merging Valkey into Redis, as the prior is a WP:REDUNDANTFORK. There are a lot more references in both articles about Redis than references about Valkey. 84.250.15.152 (talk) 20:23, 26 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Significant difference in their license type. This looks similar to the MariaDB situation, and we have two articles for both. With time the sources will eventually come. HandsomeBoy (talk) 23:42, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: The early releases of the code were called Redis, which is why the old sources use that name. But the two have diverged (due to the company reneging on the free license), and they are now different pieces of software with different maintainers and different users. For example, Valkey's release 8.0.0-rc1, from August 1, 2024 (5 months after the fork) includes numerous improvements in threading and performance over Redis.^[1]^[2] Gnuish (talk) 18:39, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose: Valkey is open source Redis is not.

https://redis.io/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

If you have just read the README Kibo no shirei-kan (talk) 13:06, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. Valkey is based on Redis; it is not Redis. This is the same as MariaDB being based on MySQL; or LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice each being based on OpenOffice.org, yet each has a separate article, because each project is distinct from the others.

Your citation to WP:REDUNDANTFORK suggests that the fact that Valkey is a fork of Redis (just as MariaDB is a fork of MySQL and LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice are forks of OpenOffice.org) may be throwing you. But this is a case of a software project fork, as described in Fork (software development). It has nothing to do with the Wikipedia guideline against content forks, a completely different thing. TJRC (talk) 03:58, 23 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@TJRC: Three votes of opposition above have focused on the note of it being a software project fork, instead of the purpose of the merge: the article contents of Valkey duplicate much of this Redis article, and the Valkey article mainly talks about Redis than Valkey.

For example, Valkey's "Popularity" section makes no mention of Valkey's popularity, it talks about Redis' popularity. Much of the sections in Valkey article are 1:1 copies of this Redis article. Out of the 72 referencesl listed (some are duplicates), around 8 references are about Valkey. I still can't see Valkey to be notable to have its own article, more than a section in this Redis article.

The LibreOffice / Apache OpenOffice articles you've mentioned as examples have dissimilar article body text, and those warrant their own article. 84.250.15.152 (talk) 16:13, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's a very good reason to edit and clean up the article; but it's a very poor reason to merge it somewhere else. TJRC (talk) 19:37, 28 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (August 26, 2024). "Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork: A fork of Redis, Valkey starts to gain its own momentum". The New Stack. Retrieved 2024-09-01.
^ Xie, Ping; Olson, Madelyn (2024-08-02). "Valkey 8.0: Delivering Enhanced Performance and Reliability". Valkey.io. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

Oppose but the Valkey article should not include so much Redis history. After cleanup, it should be fine. PhotographyEdits (talk) 21:11, 26 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Vaughan-Nichols, Steven J. (August 26, 2024). "Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork: A fork of Redis, Valkey starts to gain its own momentum". The New Stack. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

[2] Xie, Ping; Olson, Madelyn (2024-08-02). "Valkey 8.0: Delivering Enhanced Performance and Reliability". Valkey.io. Retrieved 2024-09-01.

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