--- title: Valkey · Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for... description: A preview release introduces valkey-swift, a new Swift client library for Valkey built with Swift concurrency. It offers a strongly typed API, connection... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-introducing-valkey-swift-the-swift-client-for-valkey-baxjvdxyt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valkey · Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey | daily.dev og:description: A preview release introduces valkey-swift, a new Swift client library for Valkey built with Swift concurrency. It offers a strongly typed API, connection... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-introducing-valkey-swift-the-swift-client-for-valkey-baxjvdxyt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/baxJVdXYt.png og:image:alt: Valkey · Introducing valkey-swift, the Swift client for 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 valkey-swift, the Swift client for Valkey **[Valkey](https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A preview release introduces valkey-swift, a new Swift client library for Valkey built with Swift concurrency. It offers a strongly typed API, connection pooling, code-generated command coverage across all Valkey data types, pipelining via execute() and structured concurrency, pub/sub subscriptions modeled as AsyncSequence, and a cluster client supporting topology discovery, hashslot routing, MOVED error handling, and circuit breaking. The post also walks through installing Swift, adding the package, and writing a simple get/set example. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Is there an official Swift client for Valkey? Yes, valkey-swift is a preview-release Swift client library for Valkey built with Swift concurrency in mind. It provides a strongly typed API, a persistent connection pool, code-generated support for all Valkey commands (strings, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, hashes, geospatial, hyperloglog, pub/sub), pipelining, and a cluster client with hashslot-based routing and failover. _Developers evaluating Swift database clients can track new library releases like this one on daily.dev._ ### How does pipelining work in valkey-swift? Valkey-swift supports pipelining two ways: the execute() function on ValkeyClient or ValkeyConnection sends multiple commands at once and returns a tuple of typed responses, or Swift Concurrency task groups can send commands individually and concurrently over a ValkeyConnection actor without waiting for each response, avoiding round-trip delays between commands. _Teams optimizing Valkey performance in Swift apps can follow client updates on daily.dev._ ### What features does the ValkeyClusterClient support in valkey-swift? The ValkeyClusterClient in valkey-swift supports election-based cluster topology discovery and maintenance, command routing based on key hashslots, handling of MOVED errors during resharding, connection pooling with failover, and circuit breaking during cluster disruptions. 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