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Aiven for Valkey™
Aiven for Valkey™ is a managed, in-memory NoSQL database with a small footprint and big performance. It is built on open source Valkey™ and compatible with legacy Redis® OSS.
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How it works
What can you do with Aiven for Valkey™?
Set up a fully managed in-memory NoSQL datastore in less than 10 minutes — directly from our web console or programmatically via our API, CLI, or Terraform provider. Aiven for Valkey™ is fully compatible with legacy Redis® OSS so you can connect it to your existing tech stack with ease.
Get a fully managed, in-memory NoSQL database with Aiven for Valkey
Aiven for Valkey is a Redis® compatible in-memory, open source NoSQL datastore that is perfect as a fast data store, cache, or lightweight message broker. It’s a complementary tool for your data architecture, serving as a flexible data structure server to store and recall data on the fly.
With Aiven for Valkey, you can get high-performance data caching or easily integrate it into your stack for observability purposes like logging and monitoring.
Aiven for Valkey provides data structures such as strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets with range queries, bitmaps, hyperloglogs, geospatial indexes, and streams.
Manage with the tools you want:
Terraform
GUI
CLI
API
Postman
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Choose the ideal solution for your needs
Aiven for Valkey™ or Aiven for Dragonfly
Aiven for Valkey™ and Aiven for Dragonfly are both powerful solutions designed to meet the demands of your applications. For lighter workloads that prioritize cost-effectiveness and simplicity, Aiven for Valkey offers a robust and affordable alternative based on open-source Redis®. If you require the ultimate in performance and scalability, then Aiven for Dragonfly is the perfect choice.
Aiven for Valkey™ | Aiven for Dragonfly | |
|---|---|---|
Memory size (storage) | Scales to 100GB and more, depending on the required performance | Supports up to 1TB+ of data per instance |
Throughput | Suitable for workloads of 70,000 QPS or less | Built for workloads exceeding 70,000 QPS |
Features | Provides a complete open-source Redis® compatible experience | Includes all open-source Redis® features, plus JSON support and vector search |
Other | Memcached compatibility |
Benefits
Benefits of Aiven for Valkey™
With Aiven’s fully managed service, you get all the features of open-source Redis® without any of the infrastructure stress.
Because Aiven makes setting up services easy, you can snap Aiven for Valkey™ into your data pipelines in a matter of minutes, and get back to developing. All the installation, management, and updating is taken care of, and we provide an extensive set of tools and integrations out-of-the-box.
Simply put, with Aiven for Valkey, you get legacy Redis® OSS compatible functionality ready to go.
99.99% uptime. 100% human support.
Downtime is a disaster for critical applications. That’s why Aiven makes sure you get 99.99% uptime. Plus, you get access to a 100% human support team — in case you need a helping hand.
Scale up or down easily. Whenever you need.
Increase the memory in your cluster, create new clusters, switch cloud providers, or expand to new regions. Aiven for Valkey makes scaling Redis® easy.
Automatic updates and upgrades. Zero stress.
Stressing about applying maintenance updates or version upgrades to your clusters? We’ll take care of them for you so that you can focus on turning your data into actionable insights.
Super-transparent pricing. No networking costs.
Aiven for Valkey comes with all-inclusive pricing. No hidden fees or charges, just one payment that covers networking to data storage, and everything in-between.
Customer use cases
How customers use Aiven for Valkey™
Caching for databases
Caching means fewer database access calls, which helps to reduce the amount of traffic and instances required. As Aiven for Valkey processes data with sub-millisecond latency, it’s ideal for caching use.
Chat and messaging applications
Aiven for Valkey supports Pub/Sub with pattern matching and many different varieties of data structure, such as lists, sorted sets, and hashes. This enables support for high-performance chat rooms, real-time comment streams, social media feeds, and server intercommunication.
Gaming leaderboard applications
Redis® is a popular choice among game developers looking to build real-time leaderboards or scoreboards. “Sorted Sets” within Aiven for Valkey are a built-in data structure that makes leaderboards simple to create and manage.
Features
Key features of Aiven for Valkey™
Setup
Flexible, fast, and stress-free
- Production-ready clusters in 10 minutes
- Deploy to the cloud of your choice with 5 public clouds and 100+ regions supported
- High performance clusters based on carefully selected instance types and storage options
- Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment model for strict control requirements or to take advantage of your cloud provider discounts
Connect
Integrate with your data infrastructure
- Secure network connectivity using VPC peering, PrivateLink or TransitGateway technologies
- Integrate with your favorite observability tooling — from Datadog to Prometheus, Jolokia, and more
Control
DevOps-friendly management and development
- Manage your Aiven for Valkey™ cluster using Aiven Console (GUI), CLI, or Terraform tools
- Scale, fork, and upgrade with just a few clicks
- Guaranteed compatibility with open source software
- Migrate easily between clouds and regions
Enjoy
Reliable, secure, and zero lock-in
- Self-healing platform
- Zero downtime during scaling, upgrading, and other management operations
- Automatic backups every 12 hours, depending on your plan
- Secure and compliant solution — ISO 27001:2013, SOC2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI/DSS
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Pricing plans
Scale up or down. Pay only for what you use.
Starting at just $0 a month for the free Aiven for Valkey plan, prices vary based on the number of nodes and your storage needs. Hourly billing saves you money. Change your plan anytime at no extra cost.
Hobbyist
starting from$30/month
$0.04/hour- 1 dedicated VM
- 2 CPU per VM
- 1 GB RAM per VM
Add-ons
Startup
starting from$105/month
$0.14/hour- 1 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 4-240 GB RAM per VM
- 99.99% uptime SLA
Add-ons
Business
starting from$105/month
$0.14/hour- 2 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 1-240 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Startup, plus high availability
Add-ons
Premium
starting from$160/month
$0.22/hour- 3 dedicated VM
- 2-8 CPU per VM
- 1-240 GB RAM per VM
- Everything in Business, plus a second standby node
Add-ons
Need help? Use our Pricing Calculator to get a recommended plan based on your unique data needs and requirements.
Data retention is only limited by storage. For information about annual discount or plan capacity beyond the listed plans, please contact us
FAQ
Yes, we offer a Bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC) deployment model for strict control requirements or to take advantage of your cloud provider discounts. Please contact sales for more information, or check out our BYOC documentation.
We proactively monitor all services 24/7/365. Our personnel are automatically alerted to any service anomalies for immediate resolution. Additionally, your account includes email and chat support. Three additional support tiers are available for a fee. Learn more about support response times and plans.
The free Aiven for Valkey plan comes with the following specification:
- Single node
- 1 CPU
- 1GB RAM
- Maxmemory set to 50%
- Easy management via our web console, CLI, API, Terraform provider, or Kubernetes operator
- Out-of-the-box monitoring (metrics and logs)
- Backups
- Community support
However, some Aiven platform functionality is not available:
- No VPC peering, service integrations, or forking
- Only community support
- No 99.99% SLA
- Only Digital Ocean
- Only one service per service type per user and organization
The free plans are limited in size but can be run indefinitely free of charge. The full platform free trial gives you $300 of credit for 30 days that you can use on any service types and plan sizes. You can run free services alongside your trial, they will not impact your trial credits and will continue to run after the trial has expired.
For more details on the free plans, check out our documentation.
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