Living definition
What is Valkey (Linux Foundation Redis Fork)?
Databases & Data Infrastructure Compute & Web Infra
- As of
- 2026-08-20
- Revision
- 2026-08-17.1
- Method
- v1.3.0
Definition
The term, in context
AI-assisted draft · approved dataset
Valkey is an open-source, in-memory key-value data store maintained under the Linux Foundation, created as a community fork of Redis after Redis Inc. changed its licensing terms, preserving the original open-source license and Redis-compatible command interface for caching, message queuing, and data structure storage use cases.
Live readiness status
Status as of the current dateline
AI-assisted assembly · derived results
As of 2026-08-20, verified readiness is 79 (claimed 88, reported 87, gap 9) — Critical evidence strength; current signals suggest Adopt with guardrails.
The readiness fact belongs to the canonical Readiness Verdict for Valkey (Linux Foundation Redis Fork).
Dataset approval
Human editorial release
pragma.vision editorial — standing authorization (operator dev@soft.house, 2026-07-17)
- Dataset
- 2026-08-17.1
- Hash
- sha256:0c37108a182f510fc8cf4d1dfc3a30339f2b59e62654201edea2f530a268707e
- Approved
- 2026-08-17