

Valkey license, foundation and stars
Databases and caches · BSD 3-Clause (open source) · Linux Foundation · 27,655 stars
A flexible distributed key-value database that is optimized for caching and other realtime workloads.
BSD 3-Clause No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2024.
Where it came from
| Date | Project | What |
|---|
| Mar 28, 2024 | Redis | Mar 28, 2024: Forked from Redis 7.2.4. Source |
Latest release
9.1.2 published Sep 1, 2026
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About and history
- Repository
- valkey-io/valkey · created Mar 22, 2024
- Website
- valkey.io
- Language
- C
- Foundation
- Linux Foundation · source
- GitHub detects
- BSD-3-Clause
- Stars per week
- 61 (GitHub weekly snapshots)
Weekly snapshots
| Week of | Bar | Stars |
|---|
| Nov 2, 2026 | | 27,655 |
| Oct 26, 2026 | | 27,560 |
| Oct 12, 2026 | | 27,452 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | | 27,398 |
| Sep 21, 2026 | | 27,287 |
Changes
Stars per weekNov 8, 2026
Gains about 61 stars a week, up from 55.
Stars per weekOct 18, 2026
Gains about 55 stars a week, down from 56.
Stars per weekOct 9, 2026
Gains about 56 stars a week, down from 60.
TrackedSep 24, 2026
Now tracked, from valkey-io/valkey on GitHub.