--- title: Valkey · Introducing Enhanced JSON Capabilities in Valkey description: Valkey now offers native JSON support with general availability, letting developers store, query, and update JSON documents directly without serializing to... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-introducing-enhanced-json-capabilities-in-valkey-aniyoj6vt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valkey · Introducing Enhanced JSON Capabilities in Valkey | daily.dev og:description: Valkey now offers native JSON support with general availability, letting developers store, query, and update JSON documents directly without serializing to... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-introducing-enhanced-json-capabilities-in-valkey-aniyoj6vt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aNIYoj6vt.png og:image:alt: Valkey · Introducing Enhanced JSON Capabilities in Valkey og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valkey · Introducing Enhanced JSON Capabilities in Valkey **[Valkey](https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Valkey now offers native JSON support with general availability, letting developers store, query, and update JSON documents directly without serializing to strings or flattening into Hashes. Valkey JSON supports six data types, uses an optimized binary tree-like internal format, and offers path-based commands (JSON.GET, JSON.SET, JSON.DEL) with JSONPath query support. It's available pre-loaded in the valkey-bundle Docker image alongside modules like valkey-bloom, valkey-search, and valkey-ldap. Use cases discussed include per-user event counters, shared reference metadata for microservices, and identity graph/profile storage at scale. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I store and query JSON documents natively in Valkey? Valkey supports native JSON documents through the Valkey JSON module, generally available and compatible with Valkey 8.0 and above. Use JSON.SET to store a document at a path like $, then JSON.GET with JSONPath expressions such as $[*].city or $[?(@.state=="WA")] to query specific fields or filter nested arrays without manual parsing. _See how developers are adopting native JSON in databases like Valkey on daily.dev._ ### What JSON data types and standards does Valkey JSON support? Valkey JSON supports six data types: null, boolean, number, string, object, and array, allowing arbitrarily nested structures. It complies with RFC7159 and ECMA-404 JSON standards, and internally uses an optimized binary tree-like format so operations on specific paths don't require rewriting the whole document. _Track database feature changes like Valkey's JSON support on daily.dev when evaluating your data layer._ ### How do I install the Valkey JSON module for testing? Run the valkey-bundle Docker image, which comes pre-loaded with the JSON module along with valkey-bloom, valkey-search, and valkey-ldap. Start it with 'docker run --name my-valkey-bundle -d valkey/valkey-bundle', then connect via valkey-cli and run MODULE LIST to confirm the json module is loaded before using JSON.SET and JSON.GET commands. _Developers comparing in-memory store setups can follow tooling updates like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Valkey just had a 17x year. 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