valkey
Valkey is a flexible and distributed key-value database optimized for caching and real-time workloads. It is forked from the open-source Redis project and offers add-on system support with a wide range of local data structures. Linux can be compiled using Makefile on macOS and various BSD systems.
valkey
100valkey-io · Databases & Vector Infrastructure
Common commercial products in this category: Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Aurora
- You manage key-value workloads on a high-performance data structure server.
- In addition to built-in data structures, you add new data structures and access patterns with the add-on system.
- With OpenSSL, you can compile an active server and run it with encrypted connections.
- • High number of open issues (1,025)
- • NeutralHacker News
Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
“> Nuance Not any random ensemble of "Valkey contributors" that did async IO but AWS: One of those cloud providers Redis moved away from FOSS for. One year later, Valkey hasn't just survived – it's thriving! The Async I/O Threading model contribution from AWS unlocked 3x+…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Valkey Turns One: Community fork of Redis
“It’s a bit confusing to me exactly what went wrong. I think that when you have a redis/valkey cluster with multiple nodes and you use the cluster uri, there must be some kind of load balancer or custom routing. When we would attempt to connect to valkey the connection would look…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source