Valkey

We’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Valkey v8.1 in Redis OSS compatible Heroku Key-Value Store . This isn’t just an incremental update; it’s a significant leap forward, bringing enhanced performance and greater efficiency. To add to this excitement, we’re bringing powerful new module capabilities to v8.1, with Valkey Bloom and ValkeyJSON.

For years, Heroku customers have relied on our managed in-memory data store services for caching, session management, real-time leaderboards, queueing, and so much more. Valkey is a drop-in, open-source fork of Redis OSS at v7.2, maintained by the Linux Foundation, and is backwards compatible with Redis OSS protocols…