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Monday, 19. May 2025

Build an AI-powered text-to-SQL chatbot using Amazon Bedrock, Amazon MemoryDB, and Amazon RDS (from AWS Database Blog)

Text-to-SQL can automatically transform analytical questions into executable SQL code for enhanced data accessibility and streamlined data exploration, from analyzing sales data and monitoring performance metrics to assessing customer feedback. In this post, we explore how to use Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for PostgreSQL and Amazon Bedrock to build a generative AI text-to-SQL c [...]
Published Monday, 19. May 2025 19:14 • 22 hours ago

Thursday, 15. May 2025

A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis (from The Register)

Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changes

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.…

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Published Thursday, 15. May 2025 08:30 • 5 days ago

Wednesday, 14. May 2025

Upgrade Stories from the Community, Volume 1: (from Valkey Blog)

Two new Valkey users describe what it's really like to upgrade

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 [...]

Published Wednesday, 14. May 2025 01:01 • 7 days ago

Friday, 02. May 2025

DynamoDB Decoded: When It Shines and When to Look Elsewhere (from ITNEXT)

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 [...]

Published Friday, 02. May 2025 20:57 • 18 days ago

Thursday, 01. May 2025

Redis reverts to open-source (from The Stack)

The horse, however, may have bolted... [...]
Published Thursday, 01. May 2025 17:50 • 19 days ago

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3 (from Phoronix)

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced toda [...]
Published Thursday, 01. May 2025 16:23 • 19 days ago

Redis Is Open Source Again (from The New Stack)

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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.

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Published Thursday, 01. May 2025 15:00 • 19 days ago

Wednesday, 30. April 2025

5 Strategies for Securing and Scaling Streaming Data in the AI Era (from The New Stack)

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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.

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Published Wednesday, 30. April 2025 18:00 • 20 days ago

Arch Says Goodbye to Redis, Adopts Valkey (from Linux Today)

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.

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Published Wednesday, 30. April 2025 12:25 • 20 days ago

Monday, 28. April 2025

How Habby enhanced resiliency and system robustness using Valkey GLIDE and Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

Habby is a game studio that creates interactive entertainment to connect players worldwide. We adopted Valkey GLIDE, a client library for Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Redis OSS, to address our system challenges. Our system uses the Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS publish/subscribe (Pub/Sub) functionality for the chat message sending. However, we faced challenges with connection stability duri [...]
Published Monday, 28. April 2025 15:50 • 22 days ago

Wednesday, 23. April 2025

7.2.9 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 7.2.9 Release

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Published Wednesday, 23. April 2025 00:00 • 28 days ago

8.0.3 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.3 Release

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Published Wednesday, 23. April 2025 00:00 • 28 days ago

8.1.1 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.1.1 Release

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Published Wednesday, 23. April 2025 00:00 • 28 days ago

Monday, 21. April 2025

Valkey 8.1 In-Memory Data Store Unleashes 10% Faster Throughput (from Linux Today)

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.

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Published Monday, 21. April 2025 13:32 • 29 days ago

Friday, 18. April 2025

Valkey Bloom Filter Detects Fraud (While Not Breaking the Bank) (from The New Stack)

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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.

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Published Friday, 18. April 2025 14:00 • 1 months ago

Thursday, 17. April 2025

Amazon MemoryDB now supports Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) (from AWS What's New)

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.

The continued growth of the i [...]

Published Thursday, 17. April 2025 17:00 • 1 months ago

Arch Linux Is The Latest Distribution Replacing Redis With Valkey (from Phoronix)

Arch Linux is the latest Linux distribution replacing its Redis packages with the Valkey fork... [...]
Published Thursday, 17. April 2025 13:56 • 1 months ago

Wednesday, 16. April 2025

Integrate your Spring Boot application with Amazon ElastiCache (from AWS Database Blog)

In this post, we explore the basics of integrating a Spring Boot application with ElastiCache to enable caching. 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% SLA availability. ElastiCache speeds up application performance, scaling to millions of operations per seco [...]
Published Wednesday, 16. April 2025 18:20 • 1 months ago

Friday, 11. April 2025

Even more OpenTelemetry — Kubernetes special (from ITNEXT)

Even more OpenTelemetry — Kubernetes special♦

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 [...]

Published Friday, 11. April 2025 17:22 • 1 months ago

Thursday, 10. April 2025

Announcing vertical scaling in Amazon ElastiCache for Memcached (from AWS What's New)

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 [...]

Published Thursday, 10. April 2025 17:00 • 1 months ago

Announcing General Availability of Valkey in OCI Cache (from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Blog)

In a previous blog article we expressed our commitment to support the Valkey project and our plan to offer it as part of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Cache service. Today, we announce the general availability of Valkey in OCI Cache. [...]
Published Thursday, 10. April 2025 17:00 • 1 months ago

Wednesday, 09. April 2025

Introducing Bloom Filters for Valkey (from Valkey Blog)

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 [...]

Published Wednesday, 09. April 2025 01:01 • 1 months ago

Tuesday, 08. April 2025

Redis Launches Vector Sets and a New Tool for Semantic Caching of LLM Responses (from The New Stack)

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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.

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Published Tuesday, 08. April 2025 14:00 • 1 months ago

Product update: April 2025 (from Instaclustr)

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...

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Published Tuesday, 08. April 2025 00:01 • 1 months ago

Friday, 04. April 2025

China tech giants pile into Valkey to help boost performance (from The Stack)

8.1 drops as AWS claims large scale migrations under way [...]
Published Friday, 04. April 2025 09:59 • 2 months ago

Thursday, 03. April 2025

Build low-latency, resilient applications with Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region (from AWS Database Blog)

On December 1, 2024, we announced the general availability of Amazon MemoryDB Multi-Region, a fully managed, active-active, multi-Region database that you can use to build applications with up to 99.999% availability, microsecond read, and single-digit millisecond write latencies across multiple Regions. In this post, we cover the benefits of MemoryDB Multi-Region, how it works, its disaster recove [...]
Published Thursday, 03. April 2025 20:47 • 2 months ago

Valkey 8.1’s Performance Gains Disrupt In-Memory Databases (from Linux Today)

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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Published Thursday, 03. April 2025 15:19 • 2 months ago

Wednesday, 02. April 2025

The Linux Foundation Announces General Availability of Valkey 8.1 (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)

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Valkey 8.1 Release Provides Enhanced Performance and Observability Improvements.

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Published Wednesday, 02. April 2025 08:00 • 2 months ago

Valkey 8.1: Continuing to Deliver Enhanced Performance and Reliability (from Valkey Blog)

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.

Performance

Valkey 8.1 introduces [...]

Published Wednesday, 02. April 2025 01:01 • 2 months ago

Monday, 31. March 2025

Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance (from Phoronix)

It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today... [...]
Published Monday, 31. March 2025 15:55 • 2 months ago

8.1.0 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.1.0-ga Release

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Published Monday, 31. March 2025 00:00 • 2 months ago

Friday, 28. March 2025

A new hash table (from Valkey Blog)

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 [...]

Published Friday, 28. March 2025 00:00 • 2 months ago

Wednesday, 26. March 2025

Reduce Valkey Latency in Amazon MemoryDB with Smarter Read/Write Patterns (from Coding Matheus)

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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 [...]

Published Wednesday, 26. March 2025 22:56 • 2 months ago

Wednesday, 12. March 2025

 Introducing the ROI Calculator for open source services (from Instaclustr)

Crunch the numbers and count your savings Managing open source technologies can be a heavy and expensive lift, draining your time, resources, expertise, and ultimately, your budget. No two enterprises are ever alike, and how they manage their data is likely an even larger gap. With so many different factors at play, accurately determining the...

The post  Introducing the ROI Calculator fo [...]

Published Wednesday, 12. March 2025 23:44 • 2 months ago

Thursday, 06. March 2025

Simplify Valkey Adoption with Percona Support and Services (from Percona Database Blog)

♦With Redis moving away from its open source roots, the key-value store ecosystem is shifting. For over 70% of users, Redis’s recent licensing changes have created an urgent need for a cost-effective, fully open source alternative that avoids vendor lock-in. That’s where Valkey comes in. As a Redis fork that stays true to open source […] [...]
Published Thursday, 06. March 2025 18:35 • 2 months ago

Clustercontrol adds PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Logical Replication and Valkey Sentinel v8.0 in latest release (from Severalnines' Blog)

Clustercontrol v2.3.1 is here, packed with powerful new enhancements to simplify database management and ensure high availability across databases. This release introduces PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Logical Replication and expands support for Valkey Sentinel v8.0, an open-source alternative to Redis Sentinel. Let’s dive into the details. PostgreSQL Bi-Directional Logical Replication: keeping PG c [...]

Published Thursday, 06. March 2025 11:04 • 3 months ago

Tuesday, 04. March 2025

Introducing the Valkey Glide Go Client: Now in Public Preview! (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey-Glide is pleased to announce the public preview release of the GLIDE(General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise) Go client. This release brings the power and reliability of Valkey to Go developers with an API designed for performance and developer productivity.

Valkey GLIDE is a multi-language client for Valkey, designed for operational excellence and incorporating best [...]

Published Tuesday, 04. March 2025 01:01 • 3 months ago

Friday, 28. February 2025

IBM acquires DataStax: What that means for customers–and why Instaclustr is a smart alternative (from Instaclustr)

IBM’s recent acquisition of DataStax has certainly made waves in the tech industry. With IBM’s expanding influence in data solutions and DataStax’s reputation for advancing Apache Cassandra® technology, this acquisition could signal a shift in the database management landscape. For businesses currently using DataStax, this news might have sparked questions about what the future holds....

Published Friday, 28. February 2025 14:06 • 3 months ago

Thursday, 13. February 2025

Instaclustr for ClickHouse® on Azure now in Preview (from Instaclustr)

Instaclustr for ClickHouse® is now available in preview for Azure on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform. ClickHouse is an open source, column-oriented database management system renowned for its lightning-fast query processing and high compression ratios. It is commonly used for real time analytics, log, and event analysis, and machine learning capabilities to support AI use...

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Published Thursday, 13. February 2025 14:00 • 3 months ago

Sizing the Replication Backlog Buffer for Valkey (from Percona Database Blog)

♦Data consistency and availability across distributed systems is crucial, particularly in environments that rely heavily on replication. In Valkey, one critical aspect of this replication process is the replication backlog size. This configuration parameter is vital in managing how much data can be temporarily stored to accommodate replicas that may fall behind the master node. […] [...]
Published Thursday, 13. February 2025 13:39 • 3 months ago

Friday, 31. January 2025

Aiven for Valkey™ version 8.0 (from Aiven Product updates)

Aiven for Valkey version 8.0 is now available on the Aiven Platform. It introduces multiple improvements on top of version 7.2. If you upgrade from Aiven for Caching to Aiven for Valkey, your service will run on version 8.0 after the upgrade.

Highlights

  • Performance improvements
    • Asynchronous I/O Threading: Enables parallel processing of commands and I/O operations, maximiz [...]
Published Friday, 31. January 2025 15:28 • 4 months ago