Alternative to servicestack.redis [closed]
I did an package manager update-package command to update our project to the latest binaries. I almost published it because it passed all the tests until luckily I had found a problem that needed some more debugging.
My mouth fell open when I suddenly saw this exception message:
The free-quota limit on '6000 Redis requests per hour' has been reached. Please see https://servicestack.net to upgrade to a commercial license.
What if I published this site? Practices like these are simply revolting! There is no console warning or whatsoever about not having any license. It's like having an 'open source' trojan horse spread out into your projects.
Are there any good alternatives to servicestack?
EDIT: Reading all the comments I guess my first reaction was a bit strong. Nuget updated from v3 to v4 automatically and although I didn't notice any breaking changes, reading the release notes would have been the right thing to do instead of bashing an otherwise good product. That being said, I think people will burn their hands on this exception, since 6000 requests would be enough to come through the tests and publishing this is disastrous.
We are migrating to Booksleeve, which was developed by the people who have built StackOverflow itself. So far we had very good experiences.
The money is not the issue (the cost of migration is higher than paying for the license), we're doing it because we just don't want to enter a business relationship with company with sketchy practices like this.
(And no, we didn't accept any license or anything, all we did was a git pull from GitHub.)
I am going with StackExchange.Redis which was based upon the Booksleve by Stack Exchange folks for very high performance needs. Seems good enough and with an active community.
Their license is MIT which basically means you just need to include their copyright & license into your product. (Fair enough)
ServiceStack, including packages such as ServiceStack.Redis, are becoming commercially supported products in version 4. You probably have been using version 3.x of the ServiceStack packages, and NuGet decided to update you to 4.x.
There are limits for free usage of the v4 libraries. See this announcement for more info. Version 3.x of all ServiceStack products remain open-source; there is a new GitHub project with information about v3 support.
For now, I would suggest undoing the package update and setting the max version to 3.x in your NuGet package config file, so that your NuGet packages remain at version 3.x for production code in the short term:
<package id="ServiceStack.Xyz" version="3.x.x" allowedVersions="[3,4)" />
Then it should be safe to use NuGet to update your packages.
Meanwhile, you can visit https://servicestack.net to evaluate your options for upgrading to version 4, licensing choices, or whether to stick with v3.
I was really sad to hear that SS would be commercial from V4, it made me a little bit angry but...anyway they need to keep their life I think. So I moved to "https://code.google.com/p/booksleeve/" totally without complain.