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Saturday, 05. October 2024

Valkey 8.0 Now GA with Improved Memory Efficiency (from InfoQ)

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.

By Renato Losio [...]

Thursday, 03. October 2024

Google Equips PostgreSQL, Valkey Services for Vector Processing (from The New Stack)

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

The post Google Equips PostgreSQL, Valkey Services for Vector Processing appeared first on The New Stack.

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Wednesday, 02. October 2024

Redis Users Want a Change (from The New Stack)

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

The post Redis Users Want a Change appeared first on The New Stack.

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8.0.1 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.1 Release

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7.2.7 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 7.2.7 Release

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Saturday, 28. September 2024

Does Your Open Source Project Need Foundation Oversight?  (from The New Stack)

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

The post Does Your Open Source Project Need Foundation Oversight?  appeared first on The New Stack.

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Thursday, 26. September 2024

Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue (from The New Stack)

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

The post Why Open Source Forking Is a Hot-Button Issue appeared first on The New Stack.

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Clustercontrol adds Valkey in latest release (from Severalnines' Blog)

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 […]

The post Cluste [...]

Tuesday, 24. September 2024

Valkey GLIDE v1.1, a client for Valkey and Redis OSS, now supports Node.js (from AWS What's New)

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 [...]

Friday, 20. September 2024

Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move (from The Register)

Valkey leads interest in FOSS alternatives after database slinger tightens terms

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

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Europe’s Tech Future Hinges on Open Source AI (from The New Stack)

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

The post Europe’s Tech Future Hinges on Open Source AI appeared first on The New Stack.

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Top 10 reasons why enterprises choose NetApp® Instaclustr (from Instaclustr)

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.  ...

Thursday, 19. September 2024

Valkey 8 sets a new bar for open-source in-memory NoSQL data storage (from Open Source Watch)

Redis has reason to be worried as Valkey 8 moves beyond its parent program. [...]

Wednesday, 18. September 2024

Valkey 8.0 rides high at Open Source Summit in Vienna (from The Stack)

Linux Foundation serves up new version of Redis fork [...]

Tuesday, 17. September 2024

Announcing Fedora Linux 41 Beta (from Fedora Magazine)

Today, the Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 41 Beta. While we’ll have more to share with the general availability of Fedora Linux 41 in about a month, there is plenty in the beta to get excited about now. Get the the prerelease of any of our editions from our […] [...]

Monday, 16. September 2024

With Valkey 8.0, the Linux Foundation thumbs its nose at Redis (from Techzine)

Valkey 8.0 promises across-the-board improvements in performance, reliability, and observability over previous versions and, thus, Redis as well. At the Open Source Summit in Vienna, the Linux Foundation announced the latest version of this alternative to key-value store Redis, which was forked barely six months ago. Valkey is an open-source, in-memory NoSQL data store and […] [...]

Announcing Valkey 8.0 (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)


 

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

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Announcing Valkey 8.0 (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)


 

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

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Generally Available: Valkey 8.0.0 (from Valkey Blog)

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 Released As Speedy Redis Fork Achieving One Million RPS (from Phoronix)

Valkey 8.0 was released today as this leading fork of the Redis open-source code that was started by the Linux Foundation early in the year and backed by organizations from Amazon/AWS to Google Cloud, Oracle, and others. With the Valkey 8.0 release a big focus has been on increasing performance and striving to being capable of delivering one million requests per second... [...]

8.0.0 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.0 Release

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Friday, 13. September 2024

Unlock 1 Million RPS: Experience Triple the Speed with Valkey - part 2 (from Valkey Blog)

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 [...]

Thursday, 12. September 2024

Flight to Valkey appears to be response to removal of Redis’ open source license (from Techzine)

The end of an era for Redis and perhaps the beginning of a new one for Valkey. That may well be the result of Redis Labs’ controversial decision earlier this year to give its wildly popular Redis key-value store a more limited ‘source available’ license. According to in-house research by database specialist Percona, this prompts […] [...]

Redis 8.0 Community Edition M1 Released With New Data Structures (from Phoronix)

For those continuing to make use of the open-source Redis in-memory, key-value database rather than some of the new open-source forks such as Valkey, the first milestone release of Redis 8.0 Community Edition is now available for testing... [...]

Tuesday, 10. September 2024

How to Explain the Security Advantages of Open Source (from The New Stack)

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

The post How to Explain the Security Advantages of Open Source appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 09. September 2024

Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy (from The New Stack)

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

The post Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy appeared first on The New Stack.

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Wednesday, 04. September 2024

Storing more with less: Memory Efficiency in Valkey 8 (from Valkey Blog)

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 [...]

Tuesday, 03. September 2024

Instaclustr Product Update: September 2024 (from Instaclustr)

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. ...

The post Instaclustr Product Update: September 2024 appe [...]

Monday, 26. August 2024

Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork (from The New Stack)

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

The post Valkey Is a Different Kind of Fork appeared first on The New Stack.

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Real-time AI Agent communication with Valkey™ and an LLM (from Aiven Dev Center)

Integrating Valkey® pub/sub with Amazon Bedrock for AI agent communication [...]

Friday, 16. August 2024

Cockroach Rescinds Open Core for a Free Enterprise Version (from The New Stack)

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

The post Cockroach Rescinds Open Core for a Free Enterprise Version appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 12. August 2024

Database as a Service: The Hidden Cost of Convenience (from The New Stack)

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

The post Database as a Service: The Hidden Cost of Convenience appeared first on The New Stack.

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Monday, 05. August 2024

Unlock 1 Million RPS: Experience Triple the Speed with Valkey (from Valkey Blog)

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 [...]

Sunday, 04. August 2024

Open Source vs Proprietary Code Security: Top 5 Reasons Open Source is Stronger (from Instaclustr)

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...

The post Open Source vs Proprietary Code Security: Top 5 Reasons O [...]

Friday, 02. August 2024

Valkey 8.0: Delivering Enhanced Performance and Reliability (from Valkey Blog)

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.

Performance

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

Wednesday, 31. July 2024

7.2.6 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 7.2.6 Release

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Friday, 19. July 2024

How to Monitor Valkey/Redis with Percona Monitoring and Management (from Percona Database Blog)

♦In this blog post, we will show you how to add external exporters to Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM) and monitor various services. Our focus will be on Valkey/Redis, but the principles apply to other technologies as well. PMM uses VictoriaMetrics, which is compatible with Prometheus. Prometheus has numerous exporters that you can use.  When […] [...]

Wednesday, 17. July 2024

Valkey Will Not Just Be a Redis Retread (from The New Stack)

Think again if you’ve assumed the Linux Foundation’s Valkey project will just be a clone of the Redis database. The

The post Valkey Will Not Just Be a Redis Retread appeared first on The New Stack.

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Thursday, 11. July 2024

NoSQL Database Growth Has Slowed, but AI Is Driving Demand (from The New Stack)

Four years ago, I wrote about how NoSQL databases were growing fast — in large part due to their compatibility

The post NoSQL Database Growth Has Slowed, but AI Is Driving Demand appeared first on The New Stack.

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Tuesday, 09. July 2024

Announcing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source (from AWS What's New)

Today, we’re introducing Valkey General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE), an open source Valkey client library. Valkey is an open source key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, and message queues. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey and it supports all Valkey commands. GLIDE supports Valkey 7.2 and above, and Re [...]


Introducing Valkey GLIDE, an open source client library for Valkey and Redis open source (from AWS Database Blog)

We’re excited to announce Valkey General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE), an open source permissively licensed (Apache 2.0 license) Valkey client library. In this post, we discuss the benefits of Valkey GLIDE. [...]

Using Bitnami's Valkey chart (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey is a high-performance key/value datastore that supports workloads such as caching, and message queues, supporting many data types including strings, numbers, hashes, bitmaps, and more. Valkey can run in standalone or cluster mode for replication and high availability.

Bitnami offers a number of secure, up-to-date, and easy to deploy charts for a number of popular open source applic [...]

Monday, 01. July 2024

Maintain chat history in generative AI apps with Valkey (from ITNEXT)

♦Integrate Valkey with LangChain

A while back I wrote up a blog post on how to use Redis as a chat history component with LangChain. Since LangChain already had Redis chat history available as a component, it was quite convenient to write a client application.

But, that’s not the same with langchaingo which is a Go port of LangChain. I am going to walk through how to do the same, but for Va [...]

Thursday, 27. June 2024

Introducing Aiven for Valkey (from Aiven Blog)

Aiven offers managed Valkey, an open source NoSQL database compatible with legacy OSS Redis®* perfect for caching, message queues, and more. [...]

What's new in Valkey for June 2024 (from Valkey Blog)

What have people been saying since the last what's new post? Read on to find out.

News and Press

Richard Speed from The Register tells about how Valkey gained momentum with new backers. Michael Larabel wrote a couple of stories on Phoronix: one on how Valkey will be packaged in Fedora 41 and another on Valkey's new backers.

Valkey How-To

Abhishek Gupta gives a tutorial on how to ge [...]

Wednesday, 26. June 2024

Migrating your Python Applications from Redis®* to Valkey (from Aiven Dev Center)

You can quickly update your Python applications with Valkey, the drop-in Redis®* replacement. [...]

Wednesday, 19. June 2024

Valkey gains momentum with broadening band of backers (from The Register)

AlmaLinux and Broadcom added to list of partners for open source Redis fork

Momentum is building behind open source Redis alternative Valkey with confirmation of new backers including Broadcom, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation, and Instaclustr by NetApp.…

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Tuesday, 18. June 2024

More Companies Now Backing Valkey As Leading Redis Fork (from Phoronix)

Announced back in March by the Linux Foundation was Valkey as a Redis fork following upstream licensing changes. In the few months since the Valkey in-memory NoSQL data store has put out its first release and has continued attracting more interest from Linux/open-source communities. Today the Linux Foundation announced another handful of organizations now throwing their weight behind Valkey... [...]

Valkey Welcomes New Partners Amid Growing Momentum (from Linux Foundation - Press Releases)


 

Ongoing momentum includes addition of six new partners, deepening their commitment to open source and the future of Valkey.

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Monday, 17. June 2024

Getting started with Valkey using JavaScript (from ITNEXT)

♦Run existing Redis apps with Valkey and learn how to use it with LangChain

Valkey is an open source alternative to Redis. It’s a community-driven, Linux Foundation project created to keep the project available for use and distribution under the open source Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) 3-clause license after the Redis license changes.

I think the path to Valkey was well summarised i [...]