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Open source software (OSS) is under attack — and not just from the usual suspects inserting malware or gaming vulnerability
The post Open Source Is Too Important To Dilute appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Discover NetApp Instaclustr for ClickHouse on Azure, the perfect solution for real-time analytics and machine learning to support AI workloads.
The post Instaclustr for ClickHouse® on Azure is now generally available appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]Discover seamless and secure integrations with AWS PrivateLink and Apache Cassandra. Find out more to enhance data privacy and access control.
The post Integrating support for AWS PrivateLink with Apache Cassandra® on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]Join the Valkey crew on August 28, 2025 in Amsterdam for the first ever Valkey conference: Keyspace!
Keyspace is the event where developers, SREs, and DevOps pros gather to share techniques, best practices, and new uses for Valkey. You’ll meet and network with the project maintainers, community enthusiasts, and thought leaders in a focused one-day event. The event will give insights into [...]
Valkey-search is an official Valkey module that introduces native vector similarity search capabilities. It allows you to efficiently create indexes and search through billions of vectors stored in your Valkey instances. Whether you're building semantic search, fraud detection systems, or conversational AI experiences, Valkey-Search provides a flexible and high-performance foundation for your ap [...]
Valkey 8.0.4 Release
[...]Valkey 8.1.3 Release
[...]Valkey 7.2.10 Release
[...]The last few months have been busy at NetApp Instaclustr as we’ve released some great new features for our customers, including Kafka and Kafka Connect 4.0.0 in General Availability and OpenSearch 3.0 in Preview! Get all the details here.
The post Instaclustr product update: June 2025 appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]JSON is a ubiquitous format for semi-structured data, and developers often expect native support across their technology stack, including in-memory stores like Valkey. Previously, working with JSON in Valkey required serializing entire objects as strings or flattening them into Hashes, limiting nesting. These workarounds added complexity and made updates harder than they should be.
That c [...]
NetApp is thrilled to announce the availability of Valkey 8, the latest major release, on the NetApp Instaclustr Managed Platform.
The post Top 3 reasons to upgrade to Valkey 8.0 on the Instaclustr Managed Platform appeared first on Instaclustr.
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Are you looking to build low-latency, high-performance, feature-rich applications without the hassle of managing multiple dependencies? Meet valkey-bundle your new best friend in the world of modern application development!
valkey-bundle enhances developer productivity by providing easy access to four tools in addition to the Valkey 8.1.1 through one container: Valkey JSON, Valke [...]
AWS, in partnership with Google and the Valkey community, announces general availability of General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE) 2.0, the latest release of one of its official open source Valkey client libraries. Valkey is the most permissive open source alternative to Redis stewarded by the Linux Foundation, which means it will always be open source. Valkey GLIDE is a [...]
Part two of this three-part series explores NetApp Instaclustr architectures, continuing with the fully managed approach of running workloads in customer-owned accounts.
The post Understanding NetApp Instaclustr architectures, part 2: Running workloads in customer accounts appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]Part one of this three-part series explores NetApp Instaclustr architectures, starting with the fully managed approach of running workloads in NetApp-owned accounts.
The post Understanding NetApp Instaclustr architectures, part 1: Running workloads in NetApp accounts appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]Valkey 8.1.2 Release
[...]Discover the ultimate open source data platform for your needs. Compare NetApp Instaclustr, Confluent, and Aiven to optimize your data infrastructure today!
The post Choosing the right open source data platform for your business appeared first on Instaclustr.
[...]Performance optimization is a multifaceted domain, particularly for high-performance systems like Valkey. While overall system performance depends on numerous factors including hardware specifications, OS configurations, network conditions, and deployment architectures, our work focuses specifically on optimizing Valkey's performance at the CPU level.
IntroductionWhen examining software [...]
Redis 8 has recently hit general availability, switching to the AGPLv3 license. A year after leaving its open source roots to challenge cloud service providers and following the birth of Valkey, Redis has rehired its creator and moved back to an open source license.
By Renato Losio [...]Since the beginning of time, those in power have often used their authority to exploit or dominate those with less
The post Clouds, Code, and Control: The New Open Source Power Struggle appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]In an earlier article we explored the process of building Valkey Modules to enable developers to add features such as new commands and data types to Valkey without modifying its core. We also introduced the Valkey Modules Rust SDK demonstrating how to use it to create a basic module. In this follow-up article, we’ll dive deeper into the SDK and highlight several new features and improvements int [...]
Interview Version 8.1 of Valkey was recently released, marking a year since the creation of the Redis fork. Valkey's co-maintainer, Madelyn Olson, is looking ahead to version 9 as the project settles down.…
[...]Many potential Valkey users have told the project that they're interested in hearing more stories about companies that have decided to migrate to Valkey. This blog is the first in a series that will share our users' stories. Two organizations, Muse and 4th Whale Marketing, share a similar story: they both have Valkey in a critical pl [...]
Choosing the right persistence is a tricky topic. We have many options, from traditional relational/SQL-flavoured options to the many NoSQL incarnations.
In the Cloud-native world, especially if you use AWS, DynamoDB is often presented as the go-to choice for services, with its stable performance independent of the scale. I have been using and recommending it for most serverless-based solu [...]
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is open source again. After a year of dual-sourcing its code under the proprietary
The post Redis Is Open Source Again appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Streaming data underpins real-time personalization campaigns, fraud detection, predictive maintenance and an ever-expanding set of business-critical initiatives. With AI now
The post 5 Strategies for Securing and Scaling Streaming Data in the AI Era appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Learn about Arch's strategic shift from Redis to Valkey, highlighting the advantages and innovations that come with this new database solution.
The post Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey appeared first on Linux Today.
[...]Valkey 7.2.9 Release
[...]Valkey 8.0.3 Release
[...]Valkey 8.1.1 Release
[...]Discover how Valkey 8.1 In-Memory Data Store enhances performance with 10% faster throughput, optimizing your data management and processing capabilities.
The post Valkey 8.1 In-Memory Data Store Unleashes 10% Faster Throughput appeared first on Linux Today.
[...]Just in time for spring (if you live in the Northern Hemisphere), the Valkey open source key-value datastore now supports
The post Valkey Bloom Filter Detects Fraud (While Not Breaking the Bank) appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Amazon MemoryDB clusters now support the IPv6 protocol, allowing clients to connect to MemoryDB clusters using IPv6. You can now configure your cluster to accept only IPv6 connections or to accept both IPv4 and IPv6 connections. This allows you to work to meet IPv6 compliance requirements and more efficiently integrate with existing IPv6-based applications.
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I have presented my OpenTelemetry demo many times, and I still do. Each time, the audience is different. To make no two presentations the same, I always ask attendees what stack they are more interested in. I also regularly add new features for the same reason.
I was a victim of the IT crisis last summer, and my company fired me, so I no longer [...]
Today, Amazon ElastiCache introduces the ability to perform vertical scaling on self-designed Memcached caches on ElastiCache. Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed, Valkey-, Memcached- and Redis OSS-compatible service that delivers real-time, cost-optimized performance for modern applications with 99.99% availability. With this launch, you can now dynamically adjust the compute and memory resou [...]
The Valkey project is introducing Bloom Filters as a new data type via valkey-bloom (BSD-3 licensed), an official Valkey Module which is compatible with Valkey versions >= 8.0. Bloom filters provide efficient, large-scale membership testing, improving performance and offering significant memory savings for high-volume applications.
As an example, to handle advertisement deduplication w [...]
Redis, the company behind the eponymous in-memory key-value database, mostly made news in recent months because of its license change,
The post Redis Launches Vector Sets and a New Tool for Semantic Caching of LLM Responses appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]Major Announcements ClickHouse® Instaclustr for ClickHouse® available in Preview on Azure Instaclustr for ClickHouse® is now available in Preview on Azure, following our recent ClickHouse GA release on AWS in November 2024. ClickHouse, an open source, column-oriented DBMS, is ideal for real-time analytics, log analysis, and machine learning. The Preview release includes features such as...
< [...]Redis fork Valkey, with a new multithreading architecture, delivers a threefold improvement in speed and memory efficiency gains.
The post Valkey 8.1’s Performance Gains Disrupt In-Memory Databases appeared first on Linux Today.
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Valkey 8.1 Release Provides Enhanced Performance and Observability Improvements.
The Valkey community is excited to unveil the new release of Valkey 8.1, a minor version update designed to further enhance performance, reliability, observability and usability over Valkey 8.0 for all Valkey installations.
In this blog, we'll dive a bit deeper into some of the new features in Valkey 8.1 and how they can benefit your applications.
PerformanceValkey 8.1 introduces [...]
Valkey 8.1.0-ga Release
[...]Many workloads are bound on storing data. Being able to store more data using less memory allows you to reduce the size of your clusters.
In Valkey, keys and values are stored in what's called a hash table. A hash table works by chopping a key into a number of seemingly random bits. These bits are shaped into a memory address, pointing to where the value is supposed to be stored. It's a v [...]
When using Redis-compatible engines like Amazon MemoryDB, your access patterns can directly impact latency. Even subtle inefficiencies can slow down your app.
In this short demo, I’ll show how tweaking your Redis commands can have an impact on latency so you can make the most of MemoryDB’s lightning-fast performance.
We’ll have a look at an inefficient way to write and read to the d [...]