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Backend engineers wanting a tool for building scalable and reliable applications
About Valkey
Valkey is an open source high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads, such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. It is backed by the Linux Foundation, ensuring it will remain open source forever. Valkey can run as either a standalone daemon or in a cluster, with options for replication and high availability. It 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. Valkey 8.1 introduces several performance improvements that reduce latency, increase throughput, and lower memory usage.
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Valkey
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valkey.io
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