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brew install valkey v9.1.0 BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSL-1.0 AND MIT AND (CC0-1.0 OR BSD-2-Clause)

High-performance in-memory key-value data store and cache server, Redis-compatible.

Why you might care

Drop-in replacement for Redis that maintains API compatibility while offering improved performance and open-source governance. Use it as a session store, cache, message queue, or real-time analytics backend in production systems. Valkey is faster than Redis in many workloads and actively maintained by the Linux Foundation.

Categories

database key-value-store cache

Alternatives

Redis Memcached DragonflyDB
2.4k
30-day installs · #895
5.6k
90-day · #1036
12.0k
365-day · #1329

Runtime dependencies

openssl@3

Links

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