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In December, we introduced how Model Context Protocol could make ClusterControl easier to work with from AI assistants. Since then, Severalnines has expanded that MCP direction across its database operations platforms with ClusterControl MCP and CCX MCP. The latest ClusterControl MCP is the major update, providing a more robust implementation with 69 tools and 20 […]
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Maintainers of the open source database Valkey announced Valkey 9.1 this week at Open Source Summit North America in Minneapolis. Now generally available, the latest release adds security and observability features, performance upgrades and memory-efficiency improvements. On the security side, Valkey 9.1 adds database-level ACLs, allowing administrators to restrict users to specific numbered dat [...]
This article explains how to manually migrate hash slots in Valkey/Redis clusters to expand your deployment with minimal disruption to availability. Note: Valkey 9.0 introduces the Atomic Slot Migration (ASM) feature, which significantly improves migration speed (up to 9.52 times faster) and reliability, while reducing migration complexity. So you should use ASM instead if you … Continued< [...]
Valkey 9.1 is now generally available with a focus on improved efficiency, modularity, and ecosystem tooling for production workloads. At
The post Valkey 9.1 trims memory 10% and pulls search into the core appeared first on The New Stack.
[...]The Valkey community is excited to announce version 9.1.0 This latest release includes new functionality and improvements for security, observability, performance, efficiency, and tooling from over eighty contributors. Let's take a look at a few of the highlights in this release.
SecurityRelease 9.1 strengthens Valkey's security capabilities with several important enhancements:
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Valkey Admin is a new open source observability and management tool from the Valkey project that brings cluster visibility, data inspection, and troubleshooting into a single view. It ships as a native desktop application for macOS and Linux, and as a containerized web deployment on Docker and Kubernetes. Valkey Admin provides real-time cluster dashboards, topology visualization with per-node de [...]
Amazon ElastiCache now supports aggregation queries, making it easier to filter, group, transform, and summarize data directly in your cache with a single query. Developers can use aggregation queries to build real-time application experiences with latencies as low as microseconds over terabytes of data and results reflecting completed writes.
By running aggregations directly in-memory
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Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time hybrid search that combines vector similarity with full-text search in a single query, without a separate search service. Applications can combine semantic meaning with exact keyword matching that captures both intent and precise terms to deliver more relevant results than either method alone. Customers can use ElastiCache to combine full-text and vector [...]
Amazon ElastiCache now supports real-time full-text, exact-match, and numeric range search directly in your cache without a separate search service. Applications can use ElastiCache to search terabytes of data with latency as low as microseconds and throughput up to millions of search operations per second. Developers can combine any of these search types in a single query to power real-time, sc [...]
We are excited to announce that Valkey 9 is now the default version for all new Aiven for Valkey™ services.
What this means for you:
Amazon ElastiCache now supports Valkey 9.0, bringing new capabilities to customers building real-time, AI-driven, and high-throughput applications on AWS. As applications grow more data-intensive and latency-sensitive, teams often face the overhead of managing separate search infrastructure, throughput ceilings that force over-provisioning, and complex workarounds for data lifecycle management a [...]
Amazon ElastiCache customers can now detect network throttling, memory fragmentation, and connection exhaustion, using thirteen new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for node-based clusters. You can monitor these host-level and engine-level diagnostics directly from CloudWatch without running INFO commands on individual nodes or calculating baselines from raw byte counters.
AI agent memory turns a stateless large language model (LLM) into an assistant that knows its users and delivers personalized, relevant responses. Implementing an agent memory layer can cut token cost by up to 90% and keep responses under 2 seconds (Mem0 benchmarks). Without memory, responses lose relevance, users repeat themselves, and token costs climb as raw history accumulates.
This p [...]
Over the last several years, Percona has introduced several rock-star Kubernetes Operators for managing MySQL, Percona XtraDB Cluster, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL. For Valkey, we are actively working with the community to contribute our knowledge, and experience to help brainstorm, develop, and test the official Valkey Operator for Kubernetes. While the Valkey Operator has not yet … Continued< [...]
Last summer, we introduced the preview release of valkey-swift. This 1.0 release delivers a production-ready client with stable APIs that takes full advantage of all the modern features of Swift 6.
IntroductionValkey-swift is a production-grade Swift client built with modern Swift features in mind. Using Valkey with Swift provides strongly typed APIs with clean semantics, memory-safety a [...]
A release candidate (RC) just came out for Valkey. You’ve likely heard of the term before but do you know what it really means, especially in terms of Valkey? And do you know if you should care about this release? If any of those questions pique your interest, read on.
Before pulling apart the specific reasons to use a release candidate, it’s important to talk about generally available (G [...]
In the previous guide, a robust Primary-Replica topology for Valkey was established. Read scaling is now active, and a hot copy of the data is securely stored on a second node. But there is a catch. If a primary node crashes, the replica will remain faithful and wait for instructions. It will not automatically take … Continued
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In the recent open-source data landscape, Valkey has emerged as a prominent player. Born as a Linux Foundation-backed, fully open-source fork of Redis (following Redis’s recent licensing changes), Valkey serves as a high-performance, in-memory key-value data store. Whether Valkey is deployed as a primary database, an ephemeral cache, or a rapid message broker, a single … Continued
The Laravel community gathered in Ahmedabad, India, on January 31–February 1, 2026, for Laracon India one of the most anticipated PHP conferences in the region.
Valkey was proud to participate as a sponsor, connecting with 900 attendees passionate about building fast, scalable, and modern web applications on open source foundations.
For those who couldn't attend in person, you can [...]
We're getting close to conference season again; I'll be at the NY and LA AWS summits, as well as FinOps X. What're you folks going to be attending this summer? Hit reply and let me know.
If you (well, not you, but probably the saddest looking person on your finance team) are tracking commitments in spreadsheets and hoping your discount strategy still makes sense, you're not alone. Most te [...]
The telecommunications industry is facing growing trust challenges as communication networks become targets for increasingly sophisticated fraud.
On February 14-15, 2026, 371 students and 15 teams came together at HackNC State 2026 to tackle this challenge within 24 hours. The Valkey project, under The Linux Foundation, invited the participants to compete in an API challenge choosing from [...]
Pipelining and transactions are two important features in Redis and Valkey. Both involve sending multiple commands together. But they solve completely different problems, make completely different guarantees, and combining them incorrectly is one of the most common sources of subtle bugs in production systems. In this post we’ll unpack both from first principles, look at … Continued< [...]
Madelyn Olson discusses the evolution of Valkey's data structures, moving away from "textbook" pointer-chasing HashMaps to more cache-aware designs. She explains the implementation of "Swedish" tables to maximize memory density. She shares insights on systems intuition, memory prefetching, and the rigorous testing needed for mission-critical caches.
By Madelyn Olson [...]With the winter months winding down, it's a fitting time to introduce the general availability of Spring Data Valkey, a new open source Spring Data module that provides first-class integration between Valkey and the Spring ecosystem. Valkey adoption has expanded rapidly across cloud providers, Linux distributions, and enterprise environments. As organizations standardize on Valkey for caching, s [...]
Valkey is protocol-compatible with Redis and supports the full Redis 7.2.4 command API. That's one of its greatest strengths - existing clients are largely compatible, the learning curve is not steep. It's also, quietly, a problem for tooling.
Because compatibility means every tool built before Valkey existed technically "works" with it - tools that haven't been updated to take advantage [...]
The AWS Advanced JDBC Wrapper now supports automatically caching JDBC queries with Valkey, including Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey caches. Previously, developers who needed to cache JDBC query result sets had to manually write code to store and retrieve data from the cache for each query. Now you can automatically cache result sets from your Aurora and RDS PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB database [...]
Rate limiting is one of those topics that looks simple until you’re actually doing it in production. Implement a counter with the INCR command and a TTL and away you go. But when you ask questions like “what happens at the boundary?”, “should I use a Valkey/Redis cluster?”, or “why are we getting twice the … Continued
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We’ve added support for Valkey 9.0, a major release focused on high-scale performance and more granular data control. This version is particularly beneficial for users running large-scale clusters or complex data structures.
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We are introducing multi-version support for Aiven for Valkey™. You can now choose between the two latest upstream Valkey versions when creating or upgrading your services. This flexibility is available for both standalone and clustered modes, allowing you to test new features or maintain environment stability on your own schedule.
For more details and upgrade instructions, see our documen [...]
Valkey Search now lets you search across text, tag, numeric, and vector attributes in a single query, and analyze results with server-side aggregations at the low latency you expect from Valkey. Valkey Search enables searching terabytes of data with latency as low as microseconds, providing a flexible foundation for querying across a range of use cases, from powering in-app search experiences to [...]
Do you ever wonder why we still manage Valkey the same way we always have? The honest answer is that it works. And once something works, it tends to stick around.
You spin up a Valkey cluster. Maybe it's three nodes. Maybe it's thirty. You need to inspect a key, so you open a terminal, start valkey-cli, connect, run a command, read the output, then do it again. If you need to
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Engineers operating large-scale systems face a consistent challenge: what works at moderate scale often breaks in subtle ways as systems grow. Recently, contributors and platform teams gathered at the Unlocked Conference to compare notes on what actually happens when Valkey is under real production load.
What follows are high-level observations from the day — directional insights that kep [...]
This release improves PrivateLink management with enhanced GCP PrivateLink connection approval through the new psc_connection_id field in aiven_gcp_privatelink_connection_approval. It lets you select specific connections when multiple PSC connections exist for the same service. Additionally, privatelink_connection_id support has been added across all servic
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In this episode, Thomas Betts chats with Madelyn Olson, a maintainer of the Valkey project and a Principal Software Development Engineer at Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. The conversation covers how Valkey started as an open source fork of Redis and how the maintainers optimized the memory usage and improved throughput.
By Madelyn Olson [...]Valkey is moving fast and the easiest way to stay ahead is to subscribe to the official Valkey newsletter. From new releases and roadmap milestones to community highlights and upcoming events, our newsletter is your single source of truth for everything happening across the Valkey ecosystem. No digging, no second-guessing — just the updates that matter, delivered straight to you.
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As we kick off 2026, it’s a great moment to pause, reflect, and celebrate what the Valkey project and its community has accomplished together. This past year marked an important chapter for Valkey, one defined by growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to building an open, high-performance key-value store for everyone.
2025 Key MilestonesThis past year brought meaningful progress [...]