Valkey
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A flexible distributed key-value datastore that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.
Open-source alternative to Redis announced by the Linux Foundation
Features
- Quickly reorganized by gathering support from multiple maintainers, the community, and companies in response to the license change recently announced by Redis Inc.
- Developed on top of Redis 7.2.4, with the announced commitment to keep the project usable and distributable under the BSD 3-clause license
- Companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. participate in the Valkey project
vs Redis
- Valkey at one year: how the community fork overtook Redis | GeekNews
- [Original] Valkey Turns One: How the Community Fork Left Redis in the Dust - Momento
Redis Inc shook community trust with its decision to close the source (switch to SSPL), but the developer community rallied around the Valkey fork, leading to active innovation and contributions
- Redis 8.0 has returned to open source, and its creator Antirez has come back to work on new features and optimizations, so both camps are advancing quickly
- In the latest benchmarks, Valkey 8.1.1 on 8 vCPUs showed 37% higher SET performance than Redis 8.0, with lower measured p99 latency (and a 16% edge in GET performance)
- With practical tuning techniques such as IO threads/core pinning, Valkey achieves over 3x higher throughput and minimal latency in multithreaded environments
- Also shares benchmark and tuning know-how close to real-world environments, and explains caveats for interpreting benchmark results and how to apply them in actual production environments