FAST. RELIABLE.

OPEN SOURCE, FOREVER.

Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. The project is backed by the Linux Foundation, ensuring it will remain open source forever.

Latest release

Valkey 9.1.3 Released October 26, 2026

What's new in Valkey 9.1

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Valkey can run as either a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high availability. Valkey natively supports a rich collection of datatypes, including strings, numbers, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bitmaps, hyperloglogs and more. You can operate on data structures in-place with an expressive collection of commands. Valkey also supports native extensibility with built-in scripting support for Lua and supports module plugins to create new commands, data types, and more.

Usage guide

Detailed documentation on the various datatypes supported by Valkey and best practices.

Documentation by topic

Valkey API

View the full list of Valkey commands including first party modules.

Command Reference

Clients

Recommended Valkey client libraries for Python, Java, Go, Node.js, PHP, C#, Ruby, and more.

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Performance

Deep dive into Valkey performance numbers across versions.

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Participants

The Valkey project participants are a diverse group of organizations that have come together to maintain and contribute to the project. Valkey participants are more than vendors, they are dedicated to continuously strengthening the long-term health and viability of this project so that everyone can benefit from it. Since its inception Valkey has enjoyed steady adoption demonstrating the industry's desire for an open, community-driven database solution. We look forward to seeing our list of participants grow as more companies work on our project.