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RALEIGH, N.C. — Valkey, the open source fork of created this past March, released its Version 8.0 into general availability in

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Valkey® – the next-generation in-memory database solution that steps in as the leading successor to Redis – is now available on the NetApp® Instaclustr Managed Platform.   Born earlier this year after Redis™ transitioned to a closed source model, the Valkey project addresses the need for a robust, open source alternative that upholds the ethos...

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We are ready to connect with the pioneers of open-source innovation! Canonical, the force behind Ubuntu, is returning as a gold sponsor at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024.  This premier event, hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, brings together the brightest minds in open source and cloud-native technologies. From November 13-15, 2024, we’ll […]

ElastiCache for Valkey self-designed (node-based) clusters now support server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your ElastiCache for Valkey cluster.

Monitoring response time is critical to improving end user experience by tracking applicat [...]

Amazon MemoryDB for Valkey now supports server-side write request latency and read request latency metrics. With this launch, you can now measure the server-side response time for Valkey commands and troubleshoot latency spikes in your MemoryDB cluster.

Monitoring latency is critical to improving end user experience by tracking application trends and adjusting cluster configurations, as [...]

Building a flexible cloud strategy means making decisions that align with operational efficiency, cost management and scalability. Public cloud platforms

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The recent move by AWS to entrust the OpenSearch open source search and observability suite to the Linux Foundation, under

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Valkey is a fork from Redis just before it transitioned from the open-source licensing to the Redis license.

It is a data structure server (or you can call a database as well) that serves key/value workloads, similar to Redis, supporting a wide range of native structures and additional features, such as extensible plugins for adding new data structures and access patterns, [...]

Google Cloud has introduced scalable vector-search capabilities to its Memorystore for Valkey and Redis Cluster. This update allows developers to perform vector searches at ultra-low latencies over billions of vectors.

Today, AWS announces the availability of Amazon MemoryDB in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. Amazon MemoryDB is a fully managed, Valkey and Redis OSS-compatible database for in-memory performance and multi-AZ durability. Customers in GovCloud regions can now use MemoryDB as a primary database for use cases that require ultra-fast performance and durable storage, such as payment card analytics, mes [...]

Cloud giant has expanded support for Valkey, the -backed open source fork of the previously-open source . In March, Redis

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The latest release of Ubuntu delivers a cutting edge kernel and enhanced desktop security. 10 October 2024 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 24.10, codenamed “Oracular Oriole,” available to download and install from ubuntu.com/download. Ubuntu 24.10 delivers the latest kernel, toolchains and GNOME 47 desktop environment alongside significant improvements to software security. “Orac [...]

In a move that's equal parts predictable and surprising, AWS has decided to make their Valkey-based services significantly cheaper than their Redis counterparts.

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This inclusion in Ubuntu 24.10 and 24.04 LTS marks a significant step forward – enabling simpler availability and continuous supportability for Valkey, the open source, in-memory data store, in the Ubuntu ecosystem.

This guide is focus on moving from Redis to Valkey on my Ubuntu Server 24.04. There is no official documentation on how to setup Valkey via the binary, so this guide will help you to get started with Valkey. Which in my case will replace my Redis servers.

Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey with Serverless priced 33% lower and node-based priced 20% lower than other supported engines. With ElastiCache Serverless for Valkey, customers can create a cache in under a minute and get started as low as $6/month. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a drop in replacement of [...]

Today, Amazon MemoryDB announces support for Valkey, which is priced 30% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. With MemoryDB for Valkey, you are not charged for data written up to 10 TB/month. Any data written over 10TB/month is billed at $0.04/GB, which is 80% lower than MemoryDB for Redis OSS. Valkey is an open source, high performance, key-value datastore stewarded by Linux Foundation. It is a d [...]

The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.

Yesterday, in San Francisco, OpenAI held a DevDay to introduce its new generative AI technologies to developers. And this week,

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The key-value store landscape is experiencing a shake-up, as ’ recent licensing changes have driven users to search for alternatives.

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Valkey 8.0.1 Release

Valkey 7.2.7 Release

If you’re developing an open source, cloud native project it might seem a no-brainer to one day move it under

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Valkey, OpenTofu, and OpenBao are names of open source software project forks hosted by the Linux Foundation. The forks were

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Clustercontrol (CC) v2.2.0 is now live, offering a new Redis alternative in response to recent licensing changes, along with improved support for MariaDB 11.4 and Ubuntu 24.04. Let’s explore the key updates and see what’s new in Clustercontrol v2.2.0! Redis shifts to source-available licensing Beginning with v7.4, Redis will adopt a dual-licensing model under the […]

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Today, we are announcing Node.js support for Valkey General Language Independent Driver for Enterprise (GLIDE). GLIDE is an open source client library for Valkey, an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching and message queues. With this launch, GLIDE supports Java, Python, and Node.js. GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it su [...]

Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing.…

VIENNA — AI and open source are critical for Europe’s tech future, extending to the economic bloc’s digital sovereignty and

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Enterprises of all shapes, sizes, and industries are increasingly turning to managed open source platforms to simplify their operations, enhance their capabilities, and build reliable applications at scale.   According to an IDC analyst brief, with the data growth of AI and cloud-native applications, teams must simplify their underlying data infrastructure to support business objectives.  ...

Valkey’s inaugural release delivers enhanced performance, reliability, and observability to all users.

Valkey’s inaugural release delivers enhanced performance, reliability, and observability to all users.

The first ever release of Valkey, 7.2.5, became generally available more than 5 months ago. While the initial release was a milestone, it focused on compatibility and license continuity; bringing no new features to the table. Today marks a different milestone for the Valkey project: the first major release. Valkey 8.0.0 continues the traditions of the seven major versions of Redis that precede i [...]

Valkey 8.0.0 Release

In the first part of this blog, we described how we offloaded almost all I/O operations to I/O threads, thereby freeing more CPU cycles in the main thread to execute commands. When we profiled the execution of the main thread, we found that a considerable amount of time was spent waiting for external memory. This was not entirely surprising, as when accessing random keys, the probability of find [...]

In a recent conversation with my family, we all shared that our personal information had been stolen through one cybersecurity

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The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling landscape is in turmoil. HashiCorp’s decision to move from open source to a “source-available”

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Valkey 8.0 GA is around the corner and one of the themes is increasing overall memory efficiency. Memory overhead reduction has the obvious effect of better resource utilization, but also impacts performance. By minimizing unnecessary memory consumption, you can store more data with the same hardware resources and improve overall system responsiveness. This post is going to give an overview into [...]

Here is a roundup of the latest features and updates we’ve developed on the Instaclustr Platform over the last few months! Our team has been hard at work listening to your feedback and making continuous improvements.  If you have specific feature requests or improvement ideas you’d love to see, please get in touch with us. ...

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HONG KONG —At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + Open Source Summit China 2024 this week, it was made crystal clear that

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is eliminating the free-to-use “open core” stripped-down version of its distributed database, offering in its place the more fully-featured enterprise

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It’s a refrain we’ve been hearing regularly for nearly a decade now. First, it was the age of Big Data

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Valkey 8.0, set for release in September 2024, will bring major performance enhancements through a variety of improvements including a new multi-threaded architecture. This update aims to significantly boost throughput and reduce latency across various hardware configurations. Read on to learn more about the new innovative I/O threading implementation and its impact on performance and efficiency [...]

A Security Conundrum: Open Source vs Proprietary Code It’s a fair question. After all, if you haven’t yet had your data stolen or compromised one way or another, consider yourself lucky. But odds are, that luck won’t last forever.  So as I spoke with various family members and proceeded to tell them about open source, I...

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The Valkey community is proud to unveil the first release candidate of Valkey 8.0, a major update designed to enhance performance, reliability, and observability for all Valkey installations. In this blog, we'll dive a bit deeper into each of these areas and talk about the exciting features we've built for this release.

Valkey 8.0 features significant improvements to the exist [...]

Valkey 7.2.6 Release