Integration of valkey with Spring Data Redis

[deepakraghav0]

Due to recent changes in the Redis licensing model, AWS ElastiCache will no longer provide the option to select Redis OSS starting from version 7.1 (with version 7.2 not available). Instead, AWS is promoting Valkey as the preferred backend engine.

Currently, we are using spring-boot-starter-data-redis-reactive as our client library, and everything is functioning as expected. However, I am uncertain whether future versions of Valkey will continue to be supported by Spring Data Redis.

My question is: Is there a roadmap for integrating Spring Data Redis with Valkey? Will there be a dedicated module for a Valkey client integrated with Spring Boot?

[ikolomi]

We (engineers of AWS ElastiCache team) had an initial discussion with SpringDataRedis maintainers.
Key takes from this meetings:

• From a strategic standpoint, it makes sense to have a SpringDataValkey module alongside SpringDataRedis, as we anticipate Redis and Valkey will eventually diverge.
• AWS ElastiCache is prepared to allocate engineers for developing and maintaining such module.
• The recommended approach is to start implementing the module as a Community Module under SpringDataRedis team guidance.

We are starting to evaluate the implementation options and building a roadmap.