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Thursday, 13. November 2025

Distributing Data in a Redis/Valkey Cluster: Slots, Hash Tags, and Hot Spots (from Percona Database Blog)

♦When scaling Redis or its open source fork Valkey, a single instance can cause a bottleneck. The solution is to create a sharded cluster, where the cluster partitions data across multiple nodes. Understanding how this partitioning works is crucial for designing efficient, scalable applications. This article explores the mechanics of key distribution, the use of […] [...]

Tuesday, 11. November 2025

Security updates for Tuesday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, expat, kernel, osbuild-composer, qt6-qtsvg, runc, valkey, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (incus), Fedora (cef and dotnet8.0), Mageia (strongswan), Red Hat (fence-agents and python-requests), SUSE (chromium, colord, erlang26, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libsoup, python-django, thunderbird, tiff, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (intel-microcode and rust [...]

Monday, 10. November 2025

How Alight Solutions achieved 60% cost savings with Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

Alight Solutions is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that has focused its operations on integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, and employee experience solutions. In this post, we share how Alight Solutions transformed their caching infrastructure using ElastiCache while maintaining strict performance requirements, achieving over 60% cost reduc [...]

Saturday, 08. November 2025

Redis Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Discovered after 13 Years (from InfoQ)

Redis recently released a security advisory regarding CVE-2025-49844. This critical (CVSS 10.0) use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in Lua scripting could allow authenticated attackers to execute remote code on older versions of Redis and Valkey with Lua scripting enabled. Developers are urged to upgrade to patched releases as soon as possible.

By Renato Losio [...]

Friday, 07. November 2025

How to Set Up Valkey, The Alternative to Redis (from Percona Database Blog)

♦New to Valkey? This guide walks you through the basics and helps you get up and running. Starting with new tech can feel overwhelming, but if you’re ready to explore Valkey, you probably want answers, not some fancy sales pitch. Let’s cut to the chase: Switching tools or trying something new should never slow you […] [...]

Security updates for Friday (from LWN.net)

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, libsoup, mariadb:10.5, and sssd), Debian (chromium, keystone, and swift), Fedora (apptainer, buildah, chromium, fcitx5, fcitx5-anthy, fcitx5-chewing, fcitx5-chinese-addons, fcitx5-configtool, fcitx5-hangul, fcitx5-kkc, fcitx5-libthai, fcitx5-m17n, fcitx5-qt, fcitx5-rime, fcitx5-sayura, fcitx5-skk, fcitx5-table-extra, fcitx5-unikey, fci [...]

Wednesday, 05. November 2025

Valkey 9.0 In-Memory Data Store Brings Atomic Slot Migrations, Clustered Databases (from Linux Today)

Discover Valkey 9.0, the advanced in-memory data store featuring atomic slot migrations and clustered databases for enhanced performance and reliability.

The post Valkey 9.0 In-Memory Data Store Brings Atomic Slot Migrations, Clustered Databases appeared first on Linux Today.

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Monday, 03. November 2025

Building secure Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey deployments with Terraform (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post we show you how to build a secure Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey cluster using Terraform, implementing best practices and comprehensive security controls including encryption, authentication, and network isolation. [...]

Wednesday, 29. October 2025

Resharding, Reimagined: Introducing Atomic Slot Migration (from Valkey Blog)

Managing the topology of a distributed database is one of the most critical and challenging tasks for any operator. For a high-performance system like Valkey, moving data slots between nodes —a process known as resharding— needs to be fast, reliable, and easy.

Clustered Valkey has historically supported resharding through a process known as slot migration, where one or more of the 16,384 [...]

Monday, 27. October 2025

Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads (from The New Stack)

The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project’s launch

The post Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.

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Thursday, 23. October 2025

GroundTruth reduces costs by 45% and improves reliability migrating from Aerospike to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

GroundTruth, an advertising platform leading the way in location- and behavior-based marketing, empowers brands to connect with consumers through real-world behavioral data to drive real business results. As our advertising platform scaled to process increased volume of ad requests and third-party segment ingestion, maintaining our Aerospike-based caching infrastructure introduced significant opera [...]

Tuesday, 21. October 2025

Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second (from Phoronix)

Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release... [...]

Valkey 9.0 Delivers Performance and Resiliency for Real-Time Workloads (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)

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Valkey 9.0: innovation, features, and improvements. (from Valkey Blog)

For Valkey's second major release, Valkey 9.0 brings innovation, long-requested features, and improvements to classic features updated for today’s workloads. Read on to find out all the team packed into this release.

Atomic Slot Migrations

Atomic slot migrations fundamentally changes how Valkey migrates data from node-to-node inside the cluster. Prior to Valkey 9.0, data migrated in the c [...]

Monday, 20. October 2025

Scaling a Valkey Cluster to 1 Billion Request per Second (from Valkey Blog)

The upcoming Valkey 9.0 release brings major improvements in the resilience of large clusters, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second, all while ensuring bounded recovery time. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how the Valkey clustering system works, along with the architectural improvements and rigorous testing that made this level of scale p [...]

Monday, 13. October 2025

Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. You can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI—with latencies as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall. [...]

Announcing vector search for Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS What's New)

Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. Customers can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI with latency as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall.

Key use cases include semantic caching for large language mode [...]

Thursday, 09. October 2025

CVE-2025-49844 - Redis/Valkey - Lua Use-After-Free Vulnerability (from Aiven Product updates)

On October 3rd, 2025, Redis released details on CVE-2025-49844.

This particular vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution using a specially crafted Lua script.

This affects all Redis and Valkey versions that have Lua scripting support.

This issue is resolved in:

  • Redis: 8.2.2+, 8.04+, 7.4.6+, 7.2.11+, 6.2.20+

Friday, 03. October 2025

Key components of a data-driven agentic AI application (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions. [...]

Thursday, 02. October 2025

How Valkey 8.1 Handles 50 Million Sorted Set Inserts (from Valkey Blog)

When you run infrastructure at scale, the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings. Sorted sets (ZSETs) are the backing data structure for far more than leaderboards. They're used for time‑ordered feeds, priority queues, recommendation rankings and more. Each entry carries per‑item overhead; when you're inserting tens of millions of items, those bytes accumulate into gigabytes. The la [...]

Tuesday, 30. September 2025

Tackling the Cache Invalidation and Cache Stampede Problem in Valkey with Debezium Platform (from Percona Database Blog)

♦There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. This classic joke, often attributed to Phil Karlton, highlights a very real and persistent challenge for software developers. We’re constantly striving to build faster, more responsive systems, and caching is a fundamental strategy for achieving that. But while caching offers […] [...]

Introducing Hash Field Expirations (from Valkey Blog)

One of the great strengths of Valkey has always been its built-in ability to expire keys. This simple but powerful mechanism lets developers keep their datasets fresh, automatically clear caches, or enforce session lifetimes without additional logic. But there has always been one limitation: expiration worked at the level of whole keys. If you stored multiple fields in a hash, you could set a TT [...]

Monday, 29. September 2025

Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis (from The Register)

Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching

Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…

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Thursday, 25. September 2025

Numbered Databases in Valkey 9.0 (from Valkey Blog)

If you explore Valkey’s documentation you might run across a feature called ‘numbered databases’ which allows you to separate the keyspace into (by default) 16 different databases. Digging into this feature reveals tantalizing ways to avoid key prefixing, house different workloads together on Valkey, and even perform patterns that are otherwise clunky. However, if you’ve done more research outsi [...]

Wednesday, 24. September 2025

Choosing the Right Key-Value Store: Redis vs Valkey (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Not long ago, picking an in-memory key-value store was easy. Redis was the default. Fast, simple, everywhere. Then the rules changed. Redis moved to a much more restrictive license. Suddenly, many companies had to rethink their plans, especially if they cared about staying open source or needed flexibility for the cloud. That’s when Valkey arrived. […] [...]

Tuesday, 23. September 2025

Seamlessly Migrating 15k Redis servers to Valkey (from Aiven Blog)

We are leading the way in offering a smooth path to move your current Redis® setups to a fully open-source managed Valkey service. [...]

Wednesday, 17. September 2025

Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache (from Linux Today)

Discover how Open Source Pogocache outperforms Redis and Memcache, offering enhanced caching solutions for your applications. Explore its features today!

The post Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache appeared first on Linux Today.

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Tuesday, 16. September 2025

Valkey: An Investment in Open Source (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey was founded just over a year ago to keep high-performance key/value storage in the open source community: free from vendor lock-in and restrictive licenses. Backed by contributors like AWS, Google Cloud, Ericsson, Oracle, Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, Percona, Aiven, Heroku, Verizon, Chainguard, and Canonical, the project shows how “free” in open source depends on investment: time, talent, an [...]

Wednesday, 10. September 2025

Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance" (from Phoronix)

Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache... [...]

Thursday, 04. September 2025

Reduce your Amazon ElastiCache costs by up to 60% with Valkey and CUDOS (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we show you how to save costs on Amazon ElastiCache by upgrading your cluster engine to ElastiCache for Valkey. If you’re currently using ElastiCache for Redis OSS, you can achieve up to 60% cost savings by upgrading to Valkey. [...]

Tuesday, 26. August 2025

Valkey 9.0: Enterprise-Ready, Open Source, and Coming September 29, 2025 (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Circle September 29th on your calendar! That’s when Valkey 9.0 officially drops, bringing enterprise-grade features that solve real operational headaches without the licensing restrictions or unpredictable costs you face with Redis. If you’ve been following Valkey since it forked from Redis, this release represents a major milestone. The same engineers who built Redis now work [… [...]

Tuesday, 19. August 2025

Vibe code with AWS databases using Vercel v0 (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we explore how you can use Vercel’s v0 generative UI to build applications with a modern UI for AWS purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon ElastiCache. [...]

Thursday, 14. August 2025

Valkey 9.0-rc1 Taps AVX-512 For String-To-Integer Conversion For ~19% Gain (from Phoronix)

The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV database... [...]

Back to being FOSS, Redis delivers a new, faster version (from The Register)

Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis

Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…

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Tuesday, 12. August 2025

What you'll see at Keyspace 2025 (from Valkey Blog)

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I sat on the selection committee for Keyspace and was floored by the number an [...]

Monday, 11. August 2025

Scaling transaction peaks: Juspay’s approach using Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

Juspay powers global enterprises by streamlining payment process orchestration, enhancing security, reducing fraud, and providing seamless customer experiences. In this post, we walk you through how Juspay transformed their payment processing architecture to handle transaction peaks. Using Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon RDS for MySQL, Juspay built a system that processes 7.6 million transactions per [...]

Monday, 04. August 2025

Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey (from Valkey Blog)

We are excited to introduce the preview release of valkey-swift, a new Swift based client library for Valkey.

The Client

Valkey-swift is a modern swift client built with Swift concurrency in mind. Using Valkey from Swift lets you take advantage of a strongly typed API, Swift's memory and data race safety guarantees, as well as maintaining a very light memory footprint. The API uses struct [...]

Thursday, 31. July 2025

Amazon announces Extended Support for ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS (from AWS What's New)

Amazon ElastiCache now offers Extended Support for ElastiCache versions 4 and 5 for Redis OSS, allowing customers to maintain critical workloads on these versions for up to three years beyond the standard support end date. This new offering addresses the needs of customers who require additional time to plan and execute version upgrades due to application dependencies or large-scale deployment c [...]


Introducing Extended Support for Amazon ElastiCache version 4 and version 5 for Redis OSS (from AWS Database Blog)

Amazon ElastiCache now offers Extended Support so that you can upgrade to a new major version at a pace that meets your business requirements. Extended Support is a paid offering that provides critical security updates, bug fixes, and continued support for ElastiCache versions 4 and 5 for Redis OSS through January 31, 2029. Starting on February 1, 2026, ElastiCache Redis OSS v4 and v5 clusters that [...]

Thursday, 24. July 2025

Year One of Valkey: Open-Source Innovations and ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey (from AWS Database Blog)

In April 2024, AWS announced support for Valkey, a community-driven fork of Redis born out of a shared belief that critical infrastructure software should be vendor neutral and open source. In this post, we share how, just over a year in, we remain fully committed to the Valkey project and announce support for the latest version with Amazon ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey. We explore the benefit [...]

Implement fast, space-efficient lookups using Bloom filters in Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters: a fast, memory-efficient, probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly insert items and check whether items exist. In this post, we discuss two real-world use cases demonstrating how Bloom filters work in ElastiCache, the best-practices to implement, and how you can save at least 90% in memory and cost compared to alternative implementations. Blo [...]

Announcing Bloom filter support in Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS What's New)

Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters as a new data type in ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey and above. Bloom filters are a space efficient probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly check whether an item is possibly in a set. This new feature is fully compatible with the valkey-bloom module and API compatible with the Bloom filter command syntax of the Valkey client libraries, [...]


Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 8.1 (from AWS What's New)

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey 8.1, bringing the latest innovations from the Valkey open source project into ElastiCache for Valkey, including new capabilities, performance improvements, and observability enhancements. These improvements will help developers to increase an application’s responsiveness while reducing infrastructure cost for in-memory workloads.

Am [...]

Wednesday, 23. July 2025

Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis (from Phoronix)

Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives... [...]

Monday, 21. July 2025

Using k0rdent MultiClusterService Template for Valkey on Kubernetes (from Valkey Blog)

Managing distributed applications across multiple Kubernetes clusters can be a complex and time-consuming process. This guide demonstrates how to streamline Valkey deployment using k0rdent's MultiClusterService template, providing a practical example of modern multi-cluster application delivery.

In this tutorial, we'll walk through deploying Valkey across Kubernetes clusters [...]