{"id":11721,"date":"2025-08-24T18:43:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/?p=11721"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:43:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:43:17","slug":"using-valkey-a-redis-compatible-memory-data-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/using-valkey-a-redis-compatible-memory-data-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Valkey (a Redis compatible memory data store)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Valkey is an in-memory, high performance key\/value store. It’s Redis compatible which means we can use the same protocols, clients etc.<\/p>\n

We can run up an instance via docker using<\/p>\n

\r\ndocker run --name valkey-cache -d -p 6379:6379 valkey\/valkey\r\n<\/pre>\n
The valkey client can be run from the instance using<\/p>\n
\r\ndocker exec -ti valkey-cache valkey-cli\r\n<\/pre>\n
As mentioned, we can use existing tools that work with Redis, so here’s a docker-compose.yaml to run up a Valkey instance along with redis-commander<\/p>\n
\r\nservices:\r\n  valkey:\r\n    image: valkey\/valkey\r\n    container_name: valkey\r\n    ports:\r\n      - "6379:6379"\r\n\r\n  redis-commander:\r\n    image: rediscommander\/redis-commander:latest\r\n    container_name: redis-commander\r\n    ports:\r\n      - "8080:8080"\r\n    environment:\r\n      REDIS_HOSTS: valkey:valkey:6379\r\n<\/pre>\n
Now we can use localhost:8080 and view\/interact with our data store via a browser.<\/p>\n
valkey-cli<\/strong><\/p>\n
From the valkey-cli we can run various commands to add a key\/value, get it, delete it etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
Command<\/th>Description<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
KEYS '*'<\/td>List all keys<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SET mykey \"Hello\"<\/td>add\/set a key\/value<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
GET mykey<\/td>get the value for the given key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EXISTS mykey<\/td>Check if the key exists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
DEL mykey<\/td>Delete the key\/value<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
EXPIRE mykey 60<\/td>Set an expire on the key (60 seconds in this example)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
TTL mykey<\/td>Checks the time to live for a key<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkey is an in-memory, high performance key\/value store. It’s Redis compatible which means we can use the same protocols, clients etc. We can run up an instance via docker using docker run –name valkey-cache -d -p 6379:6379 valkey\/valkey The valkey client can be run from the instance using docker exec -ti valkey-cache valkey-cli As mentioned, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,142,749],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caching","category-redis","category-valkey"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11735,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11721\/revisions\/11735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/putridparrot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}