--- title: Valkey · Valkey: An Investment in Open Source | daily.dev description: Valkey, the open-source key/value datastore forked from Redis and backed by the Linux Foundation, marks its first anniversary with growth from 22 to 47... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-valkey-an-investment-in-open-source-aajwaa8an twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valkey · Valkey: An Investment in Open Source | daily.dev og:description: Valkey, the open-source key/value datastore forked from Redis and backed by the Linux Foundation, marks its first anniversary with growth from 22 to 47... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valkey-valkey-an-investment-in-open-source-aajwaa8an og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/aaJwAa8an.png og:image:alt: Valkey · Valkey: An Investment in Open Source 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 · Valkey: An Investment in Open Source **[Valkey](https://daily.dev/sources/valkey-blog)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Valkey, the open-source key/value datastore forked from Redis and backed by the Linux Foundation, marks its first anniversary with growth from 22 to 47 corporate contributors and two major releases. New features include JSON and Bloom filter data types, a Google-contributed vector similarity search module (Valkey Search), SIMD-accelerated hashtable redesign, batch memory prefetching, LDAP integration for enterprise auth, and an Oracle-contributed Rust module SDK. The first release candidate for Valkey 9.0 shipped August 15, previewing atomic slot migrations, hash field expirations, and numbered databases in cluster mode, with general availability targeted for early autumn 2025. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What new data types did Valkey add for handling structured data and existence checks? Valkey added native JSON support and Bloom filters. JSON lets developers work with rich, structured data directly in Valkey without custom serialization or middleware, reducing glue code. Bloom filters provide compact, memory-efficient existence checks useful for fraud detection or avoiding unnecessary backend calls in high-traffic services. _Developers weighing in-memory data type options can follow Valkey's evolution on daily.dev._ ### What does the Valkey Search module contributed by Google do? Valkey Search adds vector similarity search to Valkey, delivering single-digit millisecond latency while handling billions of vectors with over 99% recall. It supports approximate nearest neighbor search via HNSW and exact k-nearest neighbor search, indexing with either Hash or Valkey-JSON data types, aimed at AI workloads. _Teams building AI retrieval pipelines can track vector search tooling like this via daily.dev._ ### When is Valkey 9.0 expected to reach general availability and what does it include? Valkey 9.0's first release candidate shipped August 15, previewing atomic slot migrations, hash field expirations, and numbered databases in cluster mode, along with performance enhancements and bug fixes. General availability is targeted for early autumn 2025, following additional release candidates during the testing phase. _Anyone planning a Valkey upgrade can keep tabs on the 9.0 rollout through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Valkey just had a 17x year. 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