# Valkey

BSD-licensed in-memory key-value datastore for caching, message queues and primary database use, forked from Redis.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/valkey/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-19
Listed since: 2026-10-19

## Record

### Links

- home: https://valkey.io
- repository: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey
- docs: https://valkey.io/topics/
- x: https://x.com/valkey_io

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Valkey project under LF Projects
- maintainerType: foundation
- parent: LF Projects, LLC
- firstRelease: unknown
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: database
- hosting: binary
- language: c
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: docker-image, binary-artifacts, package-managers, build-from-source-make

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: BSD-3-Clause

### Releases

- currentMajor: 9
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 27461
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: unknown
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- name: https://valkey.io/ (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey (read 2026-10-19)
- urls: https://valkey.io/topics/ (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainer: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/README.md (read 2026-10-19)
- maintainerType: https://valkey.io/ (read 2026-10-19)
- parent: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/README.md (read 2026-10-19)
- category: https://valkey.io/ (read 2026-10-19)
- language: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey (read 2026-10-19)
- runtime: https://valkey.io/download/ (read 2026-10-19)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/latest (read 2026-10-19)
- license: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey (read 2026-10-19)
- licenseModel: https://valkey.io/ (read 2026-10-19)
- installMethod: https://valkey.io/download/ (read 2026-10-19)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/valkey-io/valkey (read 2026-10-19)
- runsAs: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/README.md (read 2026-10-19)

## Notes

Valkey is an in-memory key-value datastore written in C, used for caching, message queues and as a primary database. It was forked from the open source Redis project and includes BSD-licensed Redis code from Redis Ltd. Valkey is an open community project under LF Projects, backed by the Linux Foundation.

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Credit, in full: FindSoftware, CC BY 4.0