Migrate to Valkey

[gvolpe]

Given the recent news, I would like to move over to Valkey for testing this project. We can continue supporting the latest open source Redis docker images, but won't be supporting newer versions.

[TobiasRoland]

👋 @gvolpe Would you expect to move to valkey4cats or sticking with redis4cats for the forseeable future?

[zan-preston]

It's looking like a fork of jedis is going to be the official java client for valkey. Would there be interest in wrapping that instead of lettuce to ensure compatibility with valkey in the future?

valkey-io/valkey#164 (comment)

[gvolpe]

@TobiasRoland a rename is not under consideration at the moment, but we may revisit it in the future.

@zan-preston the Jedis client was never an option, mainly because it used to be blocking, not sure if this is still the case. Anyway, that would be a major rewrite, the two APIs differ so much, especially when it comes to handling transactions and pipelining. I don't think this will be happening any time soon. A new project might have better changes to be honest.

[zan-preston]

@gvolpe Oh, right that makes sense. I completely forgot when I was quick to ask that jedis was blocking. 😅. Please disregard