[davideberdin]

Redis I would say, by Salvatore Sanfilippo (https://github.com/antirez)

[irthomasthomas]

OG redis was great. I think post-antirez it has grown too complex.

I'd be interested in a redis-lite fork.

[ilyt]

It's kinda natural evolution. It started with "just a KV store with few extras" and just grew more and more and more extras over time. It's "... and the kitchen sink" of databases.