Database

Valkey

Valkey in practice - the Linux Foundation Redis fork, wire compatibility, what diverged since 7.2, the migration path, and when to pick it over Redis.

Read the Valkey guide

Where Valkey sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Linux

Alternatives

Solves a similar problem differently

Memcached

Valkey release support

5 supported

Release	Latest	Released	End of life	Status
`9.1`	`9.1.2`	May 2026	May 2031	Supported
`9.0`	`9.0.6`	Oct 2025	Oct 2028	Supported
`8.1`	`8.1.10`	Mar 2025	Mar 2030	Supported
`8.0`	`8.0.11`	Sept 2024	Sept 2027	Supported
`7.2`	`7.2.14`	Apr 2024	Apr 2029	Supported

Data as of 2026-10-01 from endoflife.date. Refresh with node scripts/fetch-versions.mjs.