Not sure how the hyperscale clouds switching to a compatible/competing project from which Redis Labs gets no value or contribution is a win.

But if that’s your typical method of research, I have bad news for you about the quality of the statistics you’re relying on.

In fact, some of Redis 8’s new features were taken from Valkey source code.

Not really. Post-closing the source, the thing called “Redis” was the actual fork, and Valkey was the original community-built product. Users who want existing configurations to continue working on the same terms need “install redis” command not to break their licensing expectations.

1) you can still use it under RSAL.

2) you only have to share what you change. You don’t have to change it to provide it as a service, but if you do, you have to share the code. That doesn’t seem particularly harsh and certainly doesn’t prevent providing it commercially.