Valkey
BSD-licensed in-memory key-value datastore for caching, message queues and primary database use, forked from Redis.
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.
Identity
- Status
- Active
- Maintainer
- Valkey project under LF Projects4
- Maintained by
- Foundation1
- Owned by
- LF Projects, LLC4
Rendering and deploy
Releases
Adoption
- GitHub stars
- 27,4617
Sources
- 2026-10-19: name, Maintained by, Categories, License model
valkey.io/ - 2026-10-19: links, Written in, License
github.com/valkey-io/valkey - 2026-10-19: links
valkey.io/topics/ - 2026-10-19: Maintainer, Owned by, Runs as
github.com/valkey-io/valkey/blob/unstable/README.md - 2026-10-19: Runtime, Install with
valkey.io/download/ - 2026-10-19: Current major version, Last release
github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases/latest - 2026-10-19: GitHub stars
api.github.com/repos/valkey-io/valkey