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.

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Version 9.x.x

Release Date: 2026-02-24
GitHub Release: 9.0.3

Docker Hub (valkey/valkey)

Tags:

  • valkey/valkey:9.0.3
  • valkey/valkey:9.0.3-trixie
  • valkey/valkey:9.0.3-alpine
  • valkey/valkey:9.0.3-alpine3.23

Example: docker run --rm valkey/valkey:9.0.3


Binary Artifacts

arm64 / jammy (sha256)
x86_64 / jammy (sha256)
arm64 / noble (sha256)
x86_64 / noble (sha256)

Latest supported version of past releases

Version 8.x.x

Release Date: 2026-02-24
GitHub Release: 8.1.6

Docker Hub (valkey/valkey)

Tags:

  • valkey/valkey:8.1.6
  • valkey/valkey:8.1.6-trixie
  • valkey/valkey:8.1.6-alpine
  • valkey/valkey:8.1.6-alpine3.23

Example: docker run --rm valkey/valkey:8.1.6


Binary Artifacts

arm64 / jammy (sha256)
x86_64 / jammy (sha256)
arm64 / noble (sha256)
x86_64 / noble (sha256)

Version 7.x.x

Release Date: 2026-02-24
GitHub Release: 7.2.12

Docker Hub (valkey/valkey)

Tags:

  • valkey/valkey:7.2.12
  • valkey/valkey:7.2.12-trixie
  • valkey/valkey:7.2.12-alpine
  • valkey/valkey:7.2.12-alpine3.23

Example: docker run --rm valkey/valkey:7.2.12


Binary Artifacts

arm64 / jammy (sha256)
x86_64 / jammy (sha256)
arm64 / noble (sha256)
x86_64 / noble (sha256)

Performance

Valkey Performance Dashboards

Valkey Performance Dashboards provide a consolidated view of throughput trends across versions, helping teams validate improvements and identify regressions.

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Latest Blog Posts

What Valkey's new primitives tell us about the tools we need

Valkey ships powerful operational primitives like COMMANDLOG, SLOT-STATS, and upcoming per-thread I/O metrics — but without purpose-built tooling, much of that value goes unrealized.

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Beyond Vectors: Introducing Full-Text Search and Aggregations to Valkey

Valkey Search now enables querying across text, tags, and numeric data and analyzing results with aggregations.

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Documentation

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.

Install

Step-by-step instructions on how to install and configure Valkey for first-time users.

See Installation Guide

Usage guide

Detailed documentation on the various datatype 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

Official Valkey client libraries include support for:

  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • Node.js
  • PHP
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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.