Posted On: Jul 31, 2024
Today, we’re introducing Valkey General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE), an open source permissively licensed (Apache 2.0 license) Valkey client library. Valkey is an open source permissively licensed software under the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) that provides a high-performance key-value data store that supports a variety of workloads such as caching, session stores, leaderboards, and message queues. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey; it supports all Valkey commands, and the GitHub repository is under the valkey.io project. GLIDE supports Valkey 7.2 and Redis open source 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2, and will continue to support future releases of Valkey. Application programmers can use GLIDE to safely and reliably connect their applications to services that are Valkey- and Redis OSS-compatible.
Valkey GLIDE is designed for reliability, optimized performance, and high-availability, for Valkey- and Redis OSS- based applications. It is sponsored and supported by Amazon Web Services, and is preconfigured with best practices learned from over a decade of operating Redis OSS-compatible services used by hundreds of thousands of customers. To help ensure consistency in application development and operations, GLIDE is implemented using a core driver framework, written in Rust, with language specific extensions. This design ensures consistency in features across languages, and reduces overall complexity. In this release, GLIDE is available for Java and Python, with support for additional languages actively under development.
Valkey GLIDE is open source, permissively licensed (Apache 2.0 license), and can be used with any Valkey- or Redis OSS-compatible distribution supporting version 6.2, 7.0, and 7.2, including Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon MemoryDB. You can get started by downloading it from the major open source package managers. Learn more about it in the blog post, and submit contributions on the Valkey GLIDE GitHub repository.