Valkey 8.0 Now GA With Improved Memory Efficiency
InfoQ, Saturday, October 5th, 2024
The Linux Foundation has announced the general availability of Valkey 8.0, the open source in-memory storage solution developed as a successor to Redis.
By introducing a dictionary per slot and embedding keys directly into dictionary entries, developers can achieve up to 20% more capacity, allowing for the storage of additional keys per node.
Released under a BSD license, Valkey is a high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads, including caching, message queues, and serving as a primary database. Valkey can operate as a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high availability. Kyle Davis, senior developer advocate and open source leader for Valkey, writes:...