The comparison to Redis felt misleading when I realized it was a commercial product.

I'm not sure I like this recent trend of people registering new accounts on HN to use "Show HN" to pitch commercial products.

Show HN is fun to see projects people have been working on and want to share for the good of the community. It's less fun when it's being used as a simple advertising mechanism to drive purchases.

It's a suitable comparison I think. Redis is also not open-source.

https://github.com/redis/redis/blob/unstable/LICENSE.txt

As of 12 months ago, sure, but before that Redis was open source for 15 years.

Show HN is not limited to open source projects.

I never said it was. Seeing green accounts (just registered) doing nothing other than promote products doesn't feel consistent with the spirit of Show HN.

There's nothing wrong with green accounts doing Show HNs, really.

Doesn't always help. Price hikes on CockroachDB for instance have been crazy.

thanks for taking time and commenting :) we'd still be happy if you decided to use it and give us your thoughts. as I mentioned in one of the comments below, we're hoping to go open source in future :)

> we're hoping to go open source in future :)

That's just lip service, either you intend to or you don't, it's not up to hope

We hope you will see the dev tooling space is based around open source and you will alienate many potential users by not being open source

Let me know when it's open source and I'd be happy to give it a try! It doesn't even have to be free - I'm fine with Unreal's model where you get access to the source even though commercial use requires a paid license.

I want something running locally on my machine that doesn't rely on calling home.

your concern is understandable. we'll be in touch :)

Give me one reason to use a closed-source Redis alternative rather than one of many open ones, starting with KeyDB. If I wanted a closed clone, I'd probably go with DragonflyDB (whose license is "feel free to run it in production unless you offer it as a managed redis service").

agree, especially on something as common as Redis. Being locked in is not worth the better perf on something already super-fast.

But then I wonder what the business model is here? Even without being open-source, I'm constantly asking myself who pays for DBs that are not in a major cloud