More than strings
Lists, sets, hashes and sorted sets support queues, rankings and structured cached values.
Read the official guideUse Valkey for application caches, sessions and counters. Familiar Redis-compatible clients work with a rich set of data structures, rather than treating every value as a document in a table.
SET session:42 active EX 1800
GET session:42
INCR requests:customer:42
EXPIRE requests:customer:42 60Working with Valkey
Lists, sets, hashes and sorted sets support queues, rankings and structured cached values.
Read the official guideGive temporary data a lifetime and plan eviction behavior around the memory your workload needs.
Read the official guideUnderstand snapshots and append-only logs before deciding which data can live only in a cache.
Read the official guideSessions, caches, rate limiting and workloads that benefit from fast key lookups.
Active data must fit in memory. Extra disk storage helps persistence and recovery, not RAM capacity. Replication is asynchronous, so failover can lose recent writes.
The workspace brings connections, access and recovery together. Your application keeps its standard database client.
Find your endpoint, port, credentials and certificate together, with examples for standard clients.
Set allowed IPs and give applications separate users. Review permissions before opening access.
Full backups and recovery logs are stored off-server. Your workspace shows completed coverage.
Choose a published node type, region and storage. Review your monthly total before checkout.