Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release.
Valkey 9.0 features scalability improvements that can help achieve up to 40% more throughput than prior versions. The biggest wins come from memory prefetching for pipelining commands while there is also now zero-copy responses for large requests, support for Multipath TCP (MPTCP), and AVX-512 SIMD optimizations.
Valkey 9.0 has been tested to achieve over one billion requests per second when scaling up to 2,000 nodes for highly distributed data environments.
Valkey 9.0 also features atomic slot migrations, hash field expiration, numbered databases in cluster mode, and a variety of other performance optimizations.
More information on today’s Valkey 9.0 feature release for this Redis alternative via the Linux Foundation press release. Valkey 9.0 downloads via GitHub and more information on the Valkey.io blog.
