Valkey: Open Source High-Performance Key/Value Datastore

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Valkey is an open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, message queues, and can act as a primary database. The project is backed by the Linux Foundation, ensuring it will remain open source forever.

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Fireworks AI: Specialized Intelligence Infrastructure Valkey's caching capabilities support the kind of low-latency data access layer needed by specialized inference infrastructure like Fireworks AI.

Open Athena Both are open-source infrastructure projects competing with proprietary managed cloud services in their respective domains.

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First published:	Monday, 20 July 2026 at 12:00 UTC
Location:	https://valkey.io/
URL:	https://mattwood.fyi/i/8567cd81