[stonewhite]

Goals: For both support Redis and Memcached protocol with no client code need to be modified. For highly stable and efficient in production environment.

At face value it appears to be a NIH driven development. It is not only a redis fork it is also a persistent memcached port, which is _only_ selectable on launch. Maybe there is a catch, but lack of a roadmap and/or design document certainly doesn't really help.

[ksec]

I remember some time ago Alibaba was the largest Memcached user on the planet, may be they wanted to smooth the operation and use Redis whenever possible?