Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.

Valkey was forked from Redis in April last year after the popular in-memory database – often used as a cache – moved to a less permissive license. Shifting Redis to a dual-licensed Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1) prompted the Linux Foundation to fork the code from Redis 7.2.4, backed by AWS, Google, Snap, Ericsson, Oracle, and others.

Martin Visser, Valkey technical lead at Percona, an open source database consultancy, said a lot of organizations run many different applications using Valkey as a component for caching. The challenge is allowing different applications to run on a single Valkey instance, w

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