The Memorystore team is thrilled to announce the preview launch of Valkey 7.2 support on Memorystore to provide users with a truly open-source and high performance key-value service. The introduction of Memorystore for Valkey into the Memorystore portfolio alongside Memorystore for Redis Cluster and Memorystore for Redis is a direct response to customer demand, and is a game-changer for organizations seeking high-performance data management solutions relying on 100% open source software. By Kyle Meggs, Ping Xie.
Valkey is a fully open source successor built by long standing Redis contributors and maintainers. Fostering open collaboration that benefits all and not just a single organization is critical in building long term, sustainable open source communities
Valkey has rapidly become an open-source key-value datastore chosen for its exceptional performance, scalability, and adaptability. Valkey 7.2 is fully compatible with Redis 7.2 and the most popular Redis clients such as Jedis, redis-py, node-redis, and go-redis, offering Google Cloud customers a truly open source option through the Linux Foundation.
Launching Memorystore for Valkey 7.2 expands Memorystore’s portfolio of offerings beyond Redis Cluster, Redis, and Memcached. And we’re even more excited for the game-changing features coming in Valkey 8.0. In the first release candidate for Valkey 8.0, the community launched major enhancements across five key dimensions of performance, reliability, replication, observability, and efficiency. Nice one!
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