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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 [...]


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... [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]


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. [...]

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 [...]

Tuesday, 08. April 2025

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

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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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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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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Wednesday, 02. April 2025

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


Valkey 8.1 Release Provides Enhanced Performance and Observability Improvements.

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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 [...]

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... [...]

8.1.0 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.1.0-ga Release

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 […] [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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....

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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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. […] [...]

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 [...]

Wednesday, 08. January 2025

Reducing application latency and lowering Cloud bill by setting up your client library (from Valkey Blog)

How can adjusting your client library help you reduce Cloud costs and improve latency?

In this post, we dive into Availability Zone (AZ) affinity routing mechanics, showing how it optimizes your application's performance and cost using Valkey GLIDE (General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise). We also guide you through how to configure GLIDE to benefit from other key features. [...]

Tuesday, 07. January 2025

7.2.8 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 7.2.8 Release

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8.0.2 (from Valkey Blog)

Valkey 8.0.2 Release

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Friday, 20. December 2024

2024: The Year of Valkey (from Valkey Blog)

The end of the calendar year is a great time to reflect, but for Valkey this particular year-end holds special meaning. Think about it: this time in 2023, no one had ever heard the name “Valkey” because, well, it didn’t exist. This seems nearly unbelievable given how much has changed in only a few short months.

Now, at the end of 2024, Valkey has had both a minor and major release as well [...]