Valkey™
Real-time AI memory, caching, and session storage with Valkey.
Harness Valkey’s in-memory NoSQL database and bring your apps to life with caching, message queuing, session storage, and other real-time capabilities.
99.99% SLA
Fully managed
Runs on any cloud
Aiven for Valkey® is a managed service that provides microsecond latency and high throughput for real-time applications — with predictable costs and backed by our 99.99% uptime SLA.
Aiven automates setup, maintenance, patching, and scaling — providing a reliable 99.99% uptime SLA with automatic failover and point-in-time recovery.
Easily deploy, scale, and even create multi-cloud architectures across all major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) to meet data residency and compliance needs.
Aiven for Valkey® offers a drop-in Redis replacement with easy management via Aiven Console, CLI, or Terraform — making migration and infrastructure automation simple.
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Frequently asked questions
Valkey® is an open source key/value datastore that powers real-time workloads at the core of high-performance applications. Valkey brings:
- Blazing-fast caching: Drastically reduce database load and deliver instant responses for web, mobile, and API-driven apps.
- Proven performance: Power live leaderboards, real-time metrics, and instant aggregations as data streams in.
No nasty surprises: The Valkey project is backed by the Linux Foundation — so it will stay open source forever.
Aiven for Valkey® is a managed version of the open source (BSD) Valkey high-performance key/value datastore. Aiven handles the operational overhead of running Valkey, allowing you to focus on building your application, rather than on the intricacies of building and managing a real-time caching infrastructure.
Some of the top use cases for Valkey are:
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG): Use Valkey as a blazing-fast vector store or cache, so agents can instantly access knowledge for faster, more accurate outputs.
- Real-time analytics and dashboards: Power live leaderboards, real-time metrics, and instant aggregations as data streams in.
- Message queues: Build robust, high-throughput data pipelines for real-time data ingestion and processing.
Session management: Handle millions of concurrent user sessions with unparalleled speed and reliability.
Aiven for Valkey® provides robust, enterprise-grade security, with features including end-to-end encryption, dedicated VMs, VPC peering, plus compliance with standards including SOC 2 and GDPR.
With Aiven for Valkey, you benefit from:
- Distributed read-only replica: Scale read capacity and improve global query with read-only replica across regions and clouds.
- High availability: Experience industry-leading uptime of 99.99% for your critical applications.
- Guaranteed uptime: Rely on an architecture designed for resilience. Our plans automatically replicate your data at the shard-level across multiple availability zones for maximum uptime.
- Automatic failover: From minor glitches to node failures, Aiven automatically handles disruptions by rerouting traffic and self-healing clusters, ensuring your services stay online.
- Daily backups: Ensure business continuity with automatic Valkey backups every 12 hours and configurable data persistence, making data recovery effortless.
- Observability: Build powerful monitoring with Aiven tools or integrate with external observability services such as Datadog, Prometheus or any rsyslog compatible system.
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