Valkey Launches as Open‑Source Redis Alternative Under the Linux Foundation

The Linux Foundation announced the creation of Valkey, an open‑source alternative to Redis that will continue development on Redis 7.2.4 and remain distributed under the BSD‑3‑Clause license.

Since its inception in 2009, Redis has attracted thousands of contributors and is widely used for caching, low‑latency high‑throughput storage, real‑time analytics, session storage, and message brokering. In the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Redis ranked as the sixth most‑used database and placed among the top three most‑loved.

To keep this critical technology freely distributable, the community created Valkey, a high‑performance key‑value store supporting Linux, macOS, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and FreeBSD. The roadmap includes more reliable slot migration, significant scalability and stability improvements for clusters, multithreaded performance gains, triggers, new commands, and support for vector search.

Industry participants such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson, and Snap Inc. have pledged support, focusing on the project’s long‑term health and viability.

"I worked on open‑source Redis for six years, four of them on the core team up to version 7.2. I care deeply about open‑source software and want to keep contributing. By forming Valkey, contributors can continue our previous work and support a vibrant community," said Madelyn Olson, former Redis maintainer and AWS chief engineer. "I’m thrilled to see the Valkey project unite under open governance," added former Redis contributor and Google Cloud engineer Ping Xie. Viktor Söderqvist, Valkey co‑maintainer and senior open‑source developer at Ericsson, expressed pride in joining the maintenance team.

Under the Linux Foundation, Valkey will follow an open governance model, remain community‑driven, and welcome all users and contributors. A technical steering committee composed of former Redis contributors has been established, with hundreds of community members already expressing intent to support Valkey.

For more information, visit the GitHub project: https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey.