https://valkey-demo.oursqlcommunity.org/ 2026-03-09T05:15:04+00:00 Pluto 1.6.3 on Ruby 3.1.2 (2022-04-12) [x86_64-linux-gnu] A blog aggregator for the Valkey Community / Ecosystem https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-and-redis-sorted-sets-leaderboards-and-beyond/ 2026-03-06T15:19:07+00:00 ♦&#160; This blog post covers the details about sorted set use cases as discussed in this video. Sorted sets are one of the most powerful data structures in Valkey and Redis. While most developers immediately think about &#8220;gaming leaderboards&#8221; when they hear about sorted sets, this versatile data type can solve many problems, from task [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061464/ 2026-03-05T14:14:14+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-rpm-macros, libpng, thunderbird, udisks2, and valkey), Fedora (coturn, php-zumba-json-serializer, valkey, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (delve, go-rpm-macros, grafana, grafana-pcp, image-builder, osbuild-composer, and postgresql), Slackware (nvi), SUSE (firefox, glibc, haproxy, kernel, kubevirt, libsoup, libsoup2, libxslt, mozilla-nss, ocaml, python, python [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1061295/ 2026-03-04T14:15:02+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, firefox, go-rpm-macros, kernel, kernel-rt, mingw-fontconfig, nginx:1.24, thunderbird, and valkey), Debian (gimp), Fedora (apt, avr-binutils, keylime, keylime-agent-rust, perl-Crypt-URandom, python-apt, and rsync), Red Hat (go-rpm-macros and yggdrasil-worker-package-manager), Slackware (python3), SUSE (busybox, cosign, cups, dock [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1060911/ 2026-03-02T14:07:56+00:00 Security updates have been issued by Debian (lxd, orthanc, and thunderbird), Fedora (cef, chromium, gimp, nextcloud, pgadmin4, python-django4.2, python-django5, python3-docs, python3.12, python3.13, and python3.9), Oracle (container-tools:rhel8 and mingw-fontconfig), Slackware (gvfs, mozilla, and telnet), SUSE (avahi, cockpit-356, cockpit-podman, cockpit-podman-120, containerized-data-importer, dig [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://aiven.io/blog/the-aiven-free-tier-competition 2026-03-02T10:41:11+00:00 Build with Aiven’s free tier services like Kafka and PostgreSQL, share your story using #AivenFreeTier, and compete for a $1,000 grand prize. Ends March 31! [...] Aiven Blog https://aiven.io/blog/category/valkey https://lwn.net/Articles/1060645/ 2026-02-27T14:06:16+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, buildah, firefox, freerdp, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana-pcp, kernel, libpng15, munge, nodejs:20, nodejs:22, podman, protobuf, python-pyasn1, runc, and skopeo), Debian (chromium, nss, and python-django), Fedora (firefox, freerdp, gh, libmaxminddb, nss, python3.15, and udisks2), Oracle (buildah, firefox, freerdp, kernel, libp [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://www.percona.com/blog/security-advisory-a-series-of-cves-affecting-valkey/ 2026-02-26T22:29:18+00:00 ♦A series of vulnerabilities has been identified that affect all versions of Valkey. Below is the summary of each vulnerability: The patches for these CVEs had been released in newer versions of valkey-server and valkey-bloom. Please consider upgrading to these versions as soon as possible: valkey-server 9.0.3 valkey-server 8.1.6 valkey-server 8.0.7 valkey-server 7.2.12 valkey-bloom 1.0.1 [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://valkey.io/blog/introducing-valkey-admin/ 2026-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 <p>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.</p> <p>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 <code>valkey-cli</code>, connect, run a command, read the output, then do it again. If you need to [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://www.thestack.technology/valkeys-now-seeing-1m-container-pulls-a-week-how-hard-is-the-migration-from-redis/ 2026-02-24T14:02:51+00:00 Madelyn Olson is one of the driving forces behind Redis fork Valkey, which has now seen 80 million container pulls. She joined The Stack to chat. [...] The Stack https://www.thestack.technology/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/resilience-testing-on-amazon-elasticache-with-aws-fault-injection-service/ 2026-02-23T18:10:58+00:00 In this post, we guide you on how to run resilience tests on Amazon ElastiCache using AWS Fault Injection Service and how you can use it to strengthen the resilience strategy of your application. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.percona.com/blog/a-guide-to-accelerating-your-application-with-valkey-caching-database-queries-and-sessions/ 2026-02-19T15:33:30+00:00 ♦Modern applications often rely on multiple services to provide fast, reliable, and scalable responses. A common and highly effective architecture involves an application, a persistent database (like MySQL), and a high-speed cache service (like Valkey). In this guide, we’ll explore how to integrate these components effectively using Python to dramatically improve your application&#8217;s performanc [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://valkey.io/blog/operational-lessons/ 2026-02-19T00:00:00+00:00 <p>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.</p> <p>What follows are high-level observations from the day — directional insights that kep [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aiven.io/changelog/b91cea25-5e3e-49f3-8235-9e41466a0958 2026-02-17T07:53:00+00:00 <p>This release improves PrivateLink management with enhanced GCP PrivateLink connection approval through the new <code>psc_connection_id</code> field in <code>aiven_gcp_privatelink_connection_approval</code>. It lets you select specific connections when multiple PSC connections exist for the same service. Additionally, <code>privatelink_connection_id</code> support has been added across all servic [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/valkey-performance-improvements/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global 2026-02-09T11:00:00+00:00 ♦<p>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.</p> By Madelyn Olson [...] InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/ https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-newsletter-new/ 2026-02-04T00:00:00+00:00 <p>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.</p> <p>When you [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/optimize-llm-response-costs-and-latency-with-effective-caching/ 2026-02-02T20:41:43+00:00 In this post, we talk about the benefits of caching in generative AI applications. We also elaborated on a few implementation strategies that can help you create and maintain an effective cache for your application. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/maicoin-case-study-blue-green-upgrade-from-amazon-elasticache-redis-to-valkey/ 2026-01-22T17:15:32+00:00 MaiCoin is a leading cryptocurrency exchange and brokerage platform in Taiwan. The MaiCoin platform previously ran on a set of Amazon ElastiCache deployment clusters on Redis OSS. This post explores MaiCoin’s practical approaches using RedisShake for migrating from Amazon ElastiCache for Redis OSS to Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey using blue/green deployment strategies. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://valkey.io/blog/2025-year-end/ 2026-01-22T00:00:00+00:00 <p>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.</p> 2025 Key Milestones <p>This past year brought meaningful progress [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aiven.io/changelog/8f874b26-a2e2-4aad-83d4-3ad7756e37b2 2026-01-20T09:44:00+00:00 <p>This release introduces significant updates including Kubernetes v0.28 support. The operator now requires Go 1.20+.</p><p>A major change in this version is the complete removal of the <code>Redis</code> kind and controller from the operator, as Redis has reached end of life. Use Valkey instead for all caching services.</p><p>Key enhancements in this release include:</p><ul><li>Enhanced backup ca [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://lwn.net/Articles/1054408/ 2026-01-15T14:04:24+00:00 Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium, gnupg2, and mongo-c-driver), Fedora (firefox, gpsd, linux-firmware, and seamonkey), Mageia (net-snmp), Oracle (kernel, podman, postgresql16, postgresql:13, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (libpq, net-snmp, and transfig), Slackware (libpng and mozilla), SUSE (avahi, bluez, capstone, curl, dpdk, firefox, firefox-esr, fluids [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/large-objects-in-valkey-9-0/ 2026-01-14T21:14:22+00:00 <p>Tail latencies are where promises break. You can have a system that's fast 99% of the time, but that 1% is what users remember.</p> <p>The post Large Objects Ruin the Party &#8211; Valkey 9 Tames Them appeared first on Momento.</p> [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://lwn.net/Articles/1053988/ 2026-01-13T14:03:53+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (mariadb10.11, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, mariadb:10.5, and tar), Debian (net-snmp), Fedora (coturn, NetworkManager-l2tp, openssh, and tuxanci), Mageia (libtasn1), Oracle (buildah, cups, httpd, kernel, libpq, libsoup, libsoup3, mariadb:10.11, mariadb:10.3, openssl, and podman), SUSE (cpp-httplib, ImageMagick, libtasn1, python-cbor2, util-linux, valke [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://thenewstack.io/forks-clouds-and-the-new-economics-of-open-source-licensing/ 2026-01-12T18:49:33+00:00 ♦<p>When HashiCorp changed the licenses of Terraform and many of its other products from open source MPL 2.0 to the</p> <p>The post Forks, Clouds and the New Economics of Open Source Licensing appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://thenewstack.io/openeverest-a-tool-to-manage-multiple-databases-on-kubernetes/ 2026-01-09T15:00:56+00:00 ♦<p>Database support provider is donating a database management tool for Kubernetes environments to the . For Kubernetes environs, the newly</p> <p>The post OpenEverest, a Tool To Manage Multiple Databases on Kubernetes appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-helm-chart/ 2026-01-06T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Last year, Bitnami changed how it publishes and supports many container images and Helm charts (see charts issue #35164, charts issue #36215, and the Bitnami Secure Images announcement). Some images move behind new terms, and older tags may not be available as before.</p> <p>If your pipelines pull Bitnami charts or images during deploys, you may experience significant operational issues: rollout [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/how-the-team-behind-valkey-knew-it-was-time-to-fork/ 2025-12-31T08:30:30+00:00 <p>Discover how the Valkey team recognized the need for a fork, exploring their strategic decisions and the impact on the project's future.</p> <p>The post How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork appeared first on Linux Today.</p> [...] Linux Today https://www.linuxtoday.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-elasticache-reinvent-2025-recap/ 2025-12-22T23:13:55+00:00 re:Invent is a great opportunity for customers and builders who use AWS to share what they have built and why, architectural patterns, and best practices in the form of breakout sessions and workshops. In case you missed some of these sessions, or you wanted to get caught up on why customers like Expedia, Scopely, Adobe, and Amazon.com are building on ElastiCache, you can read this helpful summary [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aiven.io/blog/valkey-json-module-now-available-on-aiven-for-valkey 2025-12-18T15:00:00+00:00 [...] Aiven Blog https://aiven.io/blog/category/valkey https://aiven.io/changelog/3cb78ea3-0c14-4d76-bfff-90833cb9256c 2025-12-18T09:26:00+00:00 <p>What&#x27;s new</p><p>The Valkey™ JSON module is now available for all Aiven for Valkey™ services. This module extends Valkey features with advanced JSON data handling capabilities.</p><p>Key features</p><ul><li>Native JSON storage: Store JSON documents as values directly in Valkey</li><li>JSONPath queries: Query JSON documents using standard JSONPath syntax</li><li>Atomic updates: Make atomic u [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://thenewstack.io/open-source-inside-2025s-4-biggest-trends/ 2025-12-16T13:00:02+00:00 ♦<p>AI was big in 2025, but so were many other developments and worries. The biggest open source stories in 2025</p> <p>The post Open Source: Inside 2025&#8217;s 4 Biggest Trends appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://www.percona.com/blog/perform-point-in-time-recovery-pitr-in-valkey-redis/ 2025-12-15T14:14:07+00:00 ♦This article explains how you can perform Point-in-time-Recovery (PITR) in Valkey/Redis. Requirements To perform PITR, you need to have append-only logging enabled. By default, AOF in Valkey/Redis only records the operations that have been executed against the instance, not when they were executed. For that, we need to enable the aof-timestamp-enabled parameter. So your Valkey/Redis [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://thenewstack.io/how-the-team-behind-valkey-knew-it-was-time-to-fork/ 2025-12-12T19:00:40+00:00 ♦<p>TOKYO &#8212; Forking an open source project is never a first choice. It is divisive, dangerous, and politically risky. But</p> <p>The post How the Team Behind Valkey Knew It Was Time to Fork appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://valkey.io/blog/properly-secure-your-valkey-deployment/ 2025-12-12T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Most of the production security incidents I've helped debug started with misconfigurations rather than zero-days or sophisticated exploits.</p> <p>Security misconfiguration ranks as A05 in the OWASP Top 10:2021, with 90% of applications tested showing some form of misconfiguration. That's staggering. And when it comes to infrastructure like Valkey, the stakes are even higher - your cache often s [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aiven.io/changelog/bd014140-c236-4ba3-b126-92424a020d27 2025-12-11T13:48:00+00:00 <p>This version of the Aiven Terraform Provider adds write-only password support to service user resources, including <code>aiven_kafka_user</code>, <code>aiven_mysql_user</code>, <code>aiven_opensearch_user</code>, <code>aiven_pg_user</code>, and <code>aiven_valkey_user</code>. You can now manage passwords for these service users securely without storing them in your state file by using the new <c [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-elasticache-serverless-same-slot-watch-command 2025-12-10T15:00:00+00:00 <p>Today, we are announcing that Amazon ElastiCache Serverless now supports the WATCH command for same-slot transactions, helping developers build more reliable applications with improved data consistency in high-concurrency scenarios. With this launch, the WATCH command makes transactions conditional, ensuring they execute only when monitored keys remain unchanged.<br> <br> For ElastiCache Serverl [...] AWS What's New https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://www.percona.com/blog/rotate-ssl-tls-certificates-in-valkey-redis-without-downtime/ 2025-12-10T13:49:42+00:00 ♦If your Valkey/Redis deployments use SSL/TLS, you will eventually need to rotate the TLS certificates. Perhaps it is because the certificates are expiring, or you made mistakes when creating them, or it could be that the private key has been leaked. This article explains the process of rotating the TLS/SSL certificates used by Valkey/Redis deployments [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1049657/ 2025-12-08T14:11:01+00:00 Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg, krita, lasso, and libpng1.6), Fedora (abrt, cef, chromium, tinygltf, webkitgtk, and xkbcomp), Oracle (buildah, delve and golang, expat, python-kdcproxy, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, sssd, thunderbird, and valkey), Red Hat (webkit2gtk3), and SUSE (git-bug, go1, and libpng12-0). [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://www.percona.com/blog/community-erosion-post-license-change-quantifying-the-power-of-open-source/ 2025-12-05T14:24:45+00:00 ♦Summary This article is a detailed analysis of the impact of the Redis license change to a non-open-source one on its community. To summarize the findings:  37.5% of contributors (9 of 24) stopped contributing to Redis after the fork Valkey grew from 18 to 49 contributors in 18 months Valkey averages 80 PRs/month in 2025 [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1049417/ 2025-12-05T14:12:53+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, gimp:2.8, go-toolset:rhel8, ipa, kea, kernel, kernel-rt, pcs, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, systemd, and valkey), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (alexvsbus, CuraEngine, fcgi, libcoap, python-kdcproxy, texlive-base, timg, and xpdf), Mageia (digikam, darktable, libraw, gnutls, python-django, unbound, webkit2, and xkbcomp), Oracle (b [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://aiven.io/changelog/b5ab1618-47d2-45d6-b614-f14217689086 2025-12-05T08:54:00+00:00 <p>We are excited to announce the launch of Aiven for Valkey™ clustering in limited availability. This managed solution provides scalable, distributed in-memory data storage with built-in high availability.</p><p>Aiven for Valkey clustering automatically partitions your data across multiple nodes (shards), enabling you to handle larger datasets and higher traffic loads than a single-node deployment [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://severalnines.com/blog/how-clustercontrol-saved-christmas-part-1/ 2025-12-02T12:44:40+00:00 <p>Repatriation, Control, and the Start of Santa’s Database Modernization Journey Welcome to the first of a 6 part holiday series called, How ClusterControl Saved Christmas! Releasing twice a week, each part will take a look at issues and solutions around operational control and continuity for modern data workloads from what we hope is a fun [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post How ClusterControl Saved Christ [...] Severalnines' Blog https://severalnines.com/blog/ https://percona.community/blog/2025/12/02/community-recap-percona.connect-london-2025-building-the-future-of-open-source-together/ 2025-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Percona.Connect London 2025 brought the open-source database community together for a half-day of learning and collaboration. The event focused on providing practical, technical insights for DBAs, DevOps engineers, and developers. The main takeaway was clear: Stability, Openness, and Automation are essential for modern, large-scale data infrastructure.</p> Top Discussions &amp; Key Takeaways 1. [...] Percona Community Blog https://percona.community/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1048817/ 2025-12-01T14:14:39+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind9.18, cups, gimp, ipa, kernel, libssh, mingw-expat, openssl, pcs, sssd, tigervnc, and valkey), Debian (gnome-shell-extension-gsconnect, mistral-dashboard, pagure, python-mistralclient, pytorch, qtbase-opensource-src, sogo, tryton-server, and unbound), Fedora (cef, drupal7, glib2, linux-firmware, migrate, pack, pgadmin4, rnp, and unbound), Slackwar [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1048448/ 2025-11-27T14:36:11+00:00 Security updates have been issued by Debian (kdeconnect, libssh, and samba), Fedora (7zip, docker-buildkit, and docker-buildx), Oracle (bind, buildah, cups, delve and golang, expat, firefox, gimp, go-rpm-macros, haproxy, kernel, lasso, libsoup, libtiff, mingw-expat, openssl, podman, python-kdcproxy, qt5-qt3d, runc, squid, thunderbird, tigervnc, valkey, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-ser [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/lower-cost-and-latency-for-ai-using-amazon-elasticache-as-a-semantic-cache-with-amazon-bedrock/ 2025-11-26T19:43:55+00:00 This post shows how to build a semantic cache using vector search on Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey. As detailed in the Impact section of this post, our experiments with semantic caching reduced LLM inference cost by up to 86 percent and improved average end-to-end latency for queries by up to 88 percent. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/build-persistent-memory-for-agentic-ai-applications-with-mem0-open-source-amazon-elasticache-for-valkey-and-amazon-neptune-analytics/ 2025-11-26T19:40:30+00:00 Today, we’re announcing a new integration between Mem0 Open Source, Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey, and Amazon Neptune Analytics to provide persistent memory capabilities to agentic AI applications. This integration solves a critical challenge when building agentic AI applications: without persistent memory, agents forget everything between conversations, making it impossible to deliver personalized [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-ads-upgrades-to-amazon-elasticache-for-valkey-to-achieve-12-higher-throughput-and-save-over-45-in-infrastructure-costs/ 2025-11-25T21:09:48+00:00 Amazon Ads enables businesses to meaningfully engage with customers throughout their shopping journey, reaching over 300 million audience in the US alone. Delivering the right ad to the right customer in real time at a global scale requires highly available, low-latency infrastructure capable of processing tens of millions of requests per second. In this post, […] [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/breakthroughs-are-just-boring-improvements-that-pile-up/ 2025-11-24T16:52:56+00:00 <p>Engineering wins look dramatic from the outside. From the inside, they're months of small, unglamorous changes - the kind nobody celebrates until they compound into something that looks impossible.</p> <p>The post Breakthroughs Are Just Boring Improvements That Pile Up appeared first on Momento.</p> [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://www.odbms.org/2025/11/why-nextdoor-migrated-to-valkey-a-qa-with-slava-markeyev-and-meet-bhagdev/ 2025-11-23T17:10:27+00:00 Q1. Could you start by giving us an overview of Nextdoor&#8217;s technical architecture and the specific use cases where you rely on in-memory data stores? What scale and performance requirements does your platform demand,&#46;&#46;&#46; [...] ODBMS.org https://www.odbms.org https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/valkey-9-atomic-migration/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global 2025-11-22T03:05:00+00:00 ♦<p>The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 9.0, the open-source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis. The latest major version introduces atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, and full support for numbered databases in cluster mode, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second.</p> By Renato Losio [...] InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/ https://thenewstack.io/percona-brings-transparent-data-encryption-to-postgres/ 2025-11-21T22:00:49+00:00 ♦<p>At KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America last week, premium database service provider demonstrated its new technology for encrypting data at rest on</p> <p>The post Percona Brings Transparent Data Encryption to Postgres appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/cache-rebalancing-was-broken-heres-how-valkey-9-0-fixed-it/ 2025-11-18T16:28:00+00:00 <p>Few things make SREs more nervous than rebalancing a cache cluster. You know the feeling. You add a node, trigger a rebalance, and suddenly latency graphs start jumping. It’s a familiar risk of the job, especially when your cache sits between your users and your database. A small configuration mistake here can suddenly unleash a [&#8230;]</p> <p>The post Cache Rebalancing Was Broken. Here&#8217; [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://aiven.io/changelog/b3e9aa30-9895-48cd-bfb2-03138637ebce 2025-11-18T13:42:00+00:00 <p>Aiven for Valkey™ version 8.1 is now available on the Aiven Platform. It introduces multiple improvements on top of version 8.0, including:</p><p>Performance improvements</p><ul><li>New hashtable implementation: Reduces the average memory needed for key-value pairs and the number of random memory accesses. It also improves throughput by approximately 10% on pipeline workloads when not using I/O [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://www.percona.com/blog/distributing-data-in-a-redis-valkey-cluster-slots-hash-tags-and-hot-spots/ 2025-11-13T11:45:20+00:00 ♦When scaling Redis or its open source fork Valkey, a single instance can cause a bottleneck. The solution is to create a sharded cluster, where the cluster partitions data across multiple nodes. Understanding how this partitioning works is crucial for designing efficient, scalable applications. This article explores the mechanics of key distribution, the use of [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1046042/ 2025-11-11T14:45:13+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, expat, kernel, osbuild-composer, qt6-qtsvg, runc, valkey, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (incus), Fedora (cef and dotnet8.0), Mageia (strongswan), Red Hat (fence-agents and python-requests), SUSE (chromium, colord, erlang26, java-1_8_0-openjdk, libsoup, python-django, thunderbird, tiff, and warewulf4), and Ubuntu (intel-microcode and rust [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-alight-solutions-achieved-60-cost-savings-with-amazon-elasticache-for-valkey/ 2025-11-10T21:57:09+00:00 Alight Solutions is a leading cloud-based human capital technology and services provider that has focused its operations on integrated benefits administration, healthcare navigation, and employee experience solutions. In this post, we share how Alight Solutions transformed their caching infrastructure using ElastiCache while maintaining strict performance requirements, achieving over 60% cost reduc [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/redis-vulnerability-redishell/?utm_campaign=infoq_content&utm_source=infoq&utm_medium=feed&utm_term=global 2025-11-08T10:21:00+00:00 ♦<p>Redis recently released a security advisory regarding CVE-2025-49844. This critical (CVSS 10.0) use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in Lua scripting could allow authenticated attackers to execute remote code on older versions of Redis and Valkey with Lua scripting enabled. Developers are urged to upgrade to patched releases as soon as possible.</p> By Renato Losio [...] InfoQ https://www.infoq.com/ https://www.percona.com/blog/how-to-set-up-valkey-the-alternative-to-redis/ 2025-11-07T14:48:17+00:00 ♦New to Valkey? This guide walks you through the basics and helps you get up and running. Starting with new tech can feel overwhelming, but if you’re ready to explore Valkey, you probably want answers, not some fancy sales pitch. Let&#8217;s cut to the chase: Switching tools or trying something new should never slow you [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://lwn.net/Articles/1045612/ 2025-11-07T14:03:41+00:00 Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, libsoup, mariadb:10.5, and sssd), Debian (chromium, keystone, and swift), Fedora (apptainer, buildah, chromium, fcitx5, fcitx5-anthy, fcitx5-chewing, fcitx5-chinese-addons, fcitx5-configtool, fcitx5-hangul, fcitx5-kkc, fcitx5-libthai, fcitx5-m17n, fcitx5-qt, fcitx5-rime, fcitx5-sayura, fcitx5-skk, fcitx5-table-extra, fcitx5-unikey, fci [...] LWN.net https://lwn.net/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/designing-smarter-caches-with-valkey-9-0s-numbered-databases/ 2025-11-07T12:33:15+00:00 <p>Valkey 9.0 introduces numbered databases in cluster mode - a subtle change that simplifies multi-tenant design, data isolation, and atomic data updates.</p> <p>The post Designing smarter caches with Valkey 9.0’s numbered databases appeared first on Momento.</p> [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/valkey-9-0-in-memory-data-store-brings-atomic-slot-migrations-clustered-databases/ 2025-11-05T15:09:04+00:00 <p>Discover Valkey 9.0, the advanced in-memory data store featuring atomic slot migrations and clustered databases for enhanced performance and reliability.</p> <p>The post Valkey 9.0 In-Memory Data Store Brings Atomic Slot Migrations, Clustered Databases appeared first on Linux Today.</p> [...] Linux Today https://www.linuxtoday.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/building-secure-amazon-elasticache-for-valkey-deployments-with-terraform/ 2025-11-03T20:58:18+00:00 In this post we show you how to build a secure Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey cluster using Terraform, implementing best practices and comprehensive security controls including encryption, authentication, and network isolation. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://valkey.io/blog/atomic-slot-migration/ 2025-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Managing the topology of a distributed database is one of the most critical and challenging tasks for any operator. For a high-performance system like Valkey, moving data slots between nodes —a process known as resharding— needs to be fast, reliable, and easy.</p> <p>Clustered Valkey has historically supported resharding through a process known as slot migration, where one or more of the 16,384 [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://thenewstack.io/valkey-9-0-debuts-multidatabase-clustering-for-massive-scale-workloads/ 2025-10-27T12:00:44+00:00 ♦<p>The Valkey open source data store has officially released version 9.0, marking its most significant update since the project&#8217;s launch</p> <p>The post Valkey 9.0 Debuts Multidatabase Clustering for Massive-Scale Workloads appeared first on The New Stack.</p> [...] The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-9-0-the-next-generation-of-caching/ 2025-10-24T18:09:55+00:00 <p>Valkey 9 is the best demonstration of the dream of the open source model. It boosts stability at scale, improves developer experience, and is faster than ever.</p> <p>The post Valkey 9.0 &#8211; The Next Generation of Caching appeared first on Momento.</p> [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/groundtruth-reduces-costs-by-45-and-improves-reliability-migrating-from-aerospike-to-amazon-elasticache-for-valkey/ 2025-10-23T19:57:08+00:00 GroundTruth, an advertising platform leading the way in location- and behavior-based marketing, empowers brands to connect with consumers through real-world behavioral data to drive real business results. As our advertising platform scaled to process increased volume of ad requests and third-party segment ingestion, maintaining our Aerospike-based caching infrastructure introduced significant opera [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-9.0-Released 2025-10-21T18:22:09+00:00 Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release... [...] Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/ https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/valkey-9.0-delivers-performance-and-resiliency-for-real-time-workloads 2025-10-21T17:00:00+00:00 ♦ <p></p> [...] Linux Foundation - Press Releases https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press https://valkey.io/blog/introducing-valkey-9/ 2025-10-21T00:00:01+00:00 <p>For Valkey's second major release, Valkey 9.0 brings innovation, long-requested features, and improvements to classic features updated for today’s workloads. Read on to find out all the team packed into this release.</p> Atomic Slot Migrations <p>Atomic slot migrations fundamentally changes how Valkey migrates data from node-to-node inside the cluster. Prior to Valkey 9.0, data migrated in the c [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://valkey.io/blog/1-billion-rps/ 2025-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 <p>The upcoming Valkey 9.0 release brings major improvements in the resilience of large clusters, enabling scaling to 2,000 nodes and achieving over 1 billion requests per second, all while ensuring bounded recovery time. In this blog post, we provide an overview of how the Valkey clustering system works, along with the architectural improvements and rigorous testing that made this level of scale p [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/announcing-vector-search-for-amazon-elasticache/ 2025-10-13T19:01:01+00:00 Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. You can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, Anthropic, and OpenAI—with latencies as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/10/amazon-elasticache-vector-search/ 2025-10-13T07:00:00+00:00 <p>Vector search for Amazon ElastiCache is now generally available. Customers can now use ElastiCache to index, search, and update billions of high-dimensional vector embeddings from popular providers like Amazon Bedrock,&nbsp;Amazon SageMaker,&nbsp;Anthropic, and OpenAI with latency as low as microseconds and up to 99% recall.<br> <br> Key use cases include semantic caching for large language mode [...] AWS What's New https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://aiven.io/changelog/ebcc2ffa-10a9-44df-94ea-74d64afc9a3e 2025-10-09T07:20:00+00:00 <p>On October 3rd, 2025, Redis released details on CVE-2025-49844.</p><p></p><p>This particular vulnerability could allow an authenticated user to obtain remote code execution using a specially crafted Lua script.</p><p></p><p>This affects all Redis and Valkey versions that have Lua scripting support.</p><p>This issue is resolved in:</p><ul><li>Redis: 8.2.2+, 8.04+, 7.4.6+, 7.2.11+, 6.2.20+</li><li [...] Aiven Product updates https://aiven.io/changelog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/key-components-of-a-data-driven-agentic-ai-application/ 2025-10-03T14:29:29+00:00 In this post, we look at the costs, benefits, and drawbacks of replacing services for agentic AI with direct database access. Including those that work well and are proven in production, and new services yet to be built. Let’s take a closer look at the anatomy of an agentic AI application and what would factor into such decisions. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://valkey.io/blog/50-million-zsets/ 2025-10-02T00:00:01+00:00 <p>When you run infrastructure at scale, the smallest efficiencies compound into massive savings. Sorted sets (ZSETs) are the backing data structure for far more than leaderboards. They're used for time‑ordered feeds, priority queues, recommendation rankings and more. Each entry carries per‑item overhead; when you're inserting tens of millions of items, those bytes accumulate into gigabytes. The la [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://www.gomomento.com/blog/valkey-vs-redis-memory-efficiency-at-hyperscale/ 2025-10-01T18:51:47+00:00 <p>Valkey 8.1 uses 28% less memory than Redis 8.2 in our 50M sorted set benchmark. See the throughput and memory data from real-world hyperscale testing.</p> <p>The post Valkey 8.1 vs Redis 8.2: Memory Efficiency at Hyperscale appeared first on Momento.</p> [...] Momento Blog https://gomomento.com/blog https://www.percona.com/blog/tackling-the-cache-invalidation-and-cache-stampede-problem-in-valkey-with-debezium-platform/ 2025-09-30T13:17:13+00:00 ♦There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors. This classic joke, often attributed to Phil Karlton, highlights a very real and persistent challenge for software developers. We&#8217;re constantly striving to build faster, more responsive systems, and caching is a fundamental strategy for achieving that. But while caching offers [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://valkey.io/blog/hash-fields-expiration/ 2025-09-30T00:00:00+00:00 <p>One of the great strengths of Valkey has always been its built-in ability to expire keys. This simple but powerful mechanism lets developers keep their datasets fresh, automatically clear caches, or enforce session lifetimes without additional logic. But there has always been one limitation: expiration worked at the level of whole keys. If you stored multiple fields in a hash, you could set a TT [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/valkey_9/ 2025-09-29T14:32:05+00:00 Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching <p>Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…</p> [...] The Register https://www.theregister.com/ https://valkey.io/blog/numbered-databases/ 2025-09-25T00:00:00+00:00 <p>If you explore Valkey’s documentation you might run across a feature called ‘numbered databases’ which allows you to separate the keyspace into (by default) 16 different databases. Digging into this feature reveals tantalizing ways to avoid key prefixing, house different workloads together on Valkey, and even perform patterns that are otherwise clunky. However, if you’ve done more research outsi [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://www.percona.com/blog/choosing-the-right-key-value-store-redis-vs-valkey/ 2025-09-24T13:44:24+00:00 ♦Not long ago, picking an in-memory key-value store was easy. Redis was the default. Fast, simple, everywhere. Then the rules changed. Redis moved to a much more restrictive license. Suddenly, many companies had to rethink their plans, especially if they cared about staying open source or needed flexibility for the cloud. That’s when Valkey arrived. [&#8230;] [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://aiven.io/blog/seamlessly-migrating-15k-redis-servers-to-valkey 2025-09-23T15:53:09+00:00 We are leading the way in offering a smooth path to move your current Redis® setups to a fully open-source managed Valkey service. [...] Aiven Blog https://aiven.io/blog/category/valkey https://www.linuxtoday.com/blog/open-source-pogocache-pushes-beyond-redis-and-memcache/ 2025-09-17T15:59:24+00:00 <p>Discover how Open Source Pogocache outperforms Redis and Memcache, offering enhanced caching solutions for your applications. Explore its features today!</p> <p>The post Open Source Pogocache Pushes Beyond Redis and Memcache appeared first on Linux Today.</p> [...] Linux Today https://www.linuxtoday.com/ https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-investment-in-open-source/ 2025-09-16T00:00:00+00:00 <p>Valkey was founded just over a year ago to keep high-performance key/value storage in the open source community: free from vendor lock-in and restrictive licenses. Backed by contributors like AWS, Google Cloud, Ericsson, Oracle, Alibaba, Huawei, Tencent, Percona, Aiven, Heroku, Verizon, Chainguard, and Canonical, the project shows how “free” in open source depends on investment: time, talent, an [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pogocache-1.2-Released 2025-09-10T12:36:41+00:00 Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache... [...] Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/reduce-your-amazon-elasticache-costs-by-up-to-60-with-valkey-and-cudos/ 2025-09-04T21:20:42+00:00 In this post, we show you how to save costs on Amazon ElastiCache by upgrading your cluster engine to ElastiCache for Valkey. If you’re currently using ElastiCache for Redis OSS, you can achieve up to 60% cost savings by upgrading to Valkey. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.percona.com/blog/valkey-9-0-features-enterprise-ready-open-source-and-coming-september-15-2025/ 2025-08-26T13:51:36+00:00 ♦Circle September 29th on your calendar! That&#8217;s when Valkey 9.0 officially drops, bringing enterprise-grade features that solve real operational headaches without the licensing restrictions or unpredictable costs you face with Redis. If you&#8217;ve been following Valkey since it forked from Redis, this release represents a major milestone. The same engineers who built Redis now work [&#8230; [...] Percona Database Blog https://www.percona.com/blog/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/vibe-code-with-aws-databases-using-vercel-v0/ 2025-08-19T17:05:21+00:00 In this post, we explore how you can use Vercel’s v0 generative UI to build applications with a modern UI for AWS purpose-built databases such as Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Neptune, and Amazon ElastiCache. [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-9.0-rc1-Released 2025-08-14T20:46:33+00:00 The open-source Valkey key-value database that is forked from Redis is preparing for the big Valkey 9.0 feature release. Valkey 9.0-rc1 was issued today and comes with some exciting performance optimizations and other enhancements for this in-memory KV database... [...] Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/ https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/redis_redux/ 2025-08-14T06:29:09+00:00 Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis <p>Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…</p> [...] The Register https://www.theregister.com/ https://valkey.io/blog/keyspace-schedule/ 2025-08-12T01:01:01+00:00 /* this blog post pulls in CSS from sessionize and it clashes with our color scheme */ .main-inner #sessionize.sessionize-wrapper .sz-speaker.sz-speaker--full .sz-speaker__name { color: #30176e; } .main-inner #sessionize.sessionize-wrapper .sz-speaker.sz-speaker--full .sz-speaker__tagline { color: #30176e; } <p>I sat on the selection committee for Keyspace and was floored by the number an [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/scaling-transaction-peaks-juspays-approach-using-amazon-elasticache/ 2025-08-11T21:44:10+00:00 Juspay powers global enterprises by streamlining payment process orchestration, enhancing security, reducing fraud, and providing seamless customer experiences. In this post, we walk you through how Juspay transformed their payment processing architecture to handle transaction peaks. Using Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon RDS for MySQL, Juspay built a system that processes 7.6 million transactions per [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://valkey.io/blog/valkey-swift/ 2025-08-04T00:00:00+00:00 <p>We are excited to introduce the preview release of valkey-swift, a new Swift based client library for Valkey.</p> The Client <p>Valkey-swift is a modern swift client built with Swift concurrency in mind. Using Valkey from Swift lets you take advantage of a strongly typed API, Swift's memory and data race safety guarantees, as well as maintaining a very light memory footprint. The API uses struct [...] Valkey Blog https://valkey.io/blog/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-elasticache-extended-redis/ 2025-07-31T21:00:00+00:00 <p>Amazon ElastiCache now offers Extended Support for ElastiCache versions 4 and 5 for Redis OSS, allowing customers to maintain critical workloads on these versions for up to three years beyond the standard support end date. This new offering addresses the needs of customers who require additional time to plan and execute version upgrades due to application dependencies or large-scale deployment c [...] AWS What's New https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/introducing-extended-support-for-amazon-elasticache-version-4-and-version-5-for-redis-oss/ 2025-07-31T19:39:13+00:00 Amazon ElastiCache now offers Extended Support so that you can upgrade to a new major version at a pace that meets your business requirements. Extended Support is a paid offering that provides critical security updates, bug fixes, and continued support for ElastiCache versions 4 and 5 for Redis OSS through January 31, 2029. Starting on February 1, 2026, ElastiCache Redis OSS v4 and v5 clusters that [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/year-one-of-valkey-open-source-innovations-and-elasticache-version-8-1-for-valkey/ 2025-07-24T20:40:42+00:00 In April 2024, AWS announced support for Valkey, a community-driven fork of Redis born out of a shared belief that critical infrastructure software should be vendor neutral and open source. In this post, we share how, just over a year in, we remain fully committed to the Valkey project and announce support for the latest version with Amazon ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey. We explore the benefit [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/implement-fast-space-efficient-lookups-using-bloom-filters-in-amazon-elasticache/ 2025-07-24T20:33:23+00:00 Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters: a fast, memory-efficient, probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly insert items and check whether items exist. In this post, we discuss two real-world use cases demonstrating how Bloom filters work in ElastiCache, the best-practices to implement, and how you can save at least 90% in memory and cost compared to alternative implementations. Blo [...] AWS Database Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/bloom-filter-amazon-elasticache/ 2025-07-24T17:44:00+00:00 <p>Amazon ElastiCache now supports Bloom filters as a new data type in ElastiCache version 8.1 for Valkey and above. Bloom filters are a space efficient probabilistic data structure that lets you quickly check whether an item is possibly in a set. This new feature is fully compatible with the valkey-bloom module and API compatible with the Bloom filter command syntax of the Valkey client libraries, [...] AWS What's New https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/07/amazon-elasticache-valkey-8-1/ 2025-07-24T17:38:00+00:00 <p>Today, Amazon ElastiCache announces support for Valkey 8.1, bringing the latest innovations from the Valkey open source project into ElastiCache for Valkey, including new capabilities, performance improvements, and observability enhancements. These improvements will help developers to increase an application’s responsiveness while reducing infrastructure cost for in-memory workloads.<br> <br> Am [...] AWS What's New https://aws.amazon.com/new/ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pogocache-1.0-Released 2025-07-23T12:11:31+00:00 Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives... [...] Phoronix https://www.phoronix.com/