Heroku Key-Value Store
The key-value datastore you love, with the developer experience you deserve.
The Valkey you love, made better
Heroku Key-Value Store delivers a robust, scalable, and developer-friendly in-memory datastore, compatible with Redis®* OSS. It brings enhanced performance and greater efficiency to supercharge your applications. Heroku Key-Value Store lets you gain greater visibility into performance and better manage your instances with a powerful CLI. Let our experts run your Valkey instance so you can focus on what matters – your app.The developer experience you deserve
Visual performance analytics for instant insight
Performance Analytics surfaces key runtime metrics like the number of calls per command, active connections over time, the number of keys in play, and memory being consumed on a unified time axis. Gain clearer insights into your Valkey usage with new logging capabilities, including a command log for identifying bandwidth-heavy operations.
Real-time, aggregated logging
Fine-grained logs from your Valkey instance join your application’s real-time aggregated log-stream and can be consumed via the new Heroku Key-Value Store CLI plugin or any of the many logging-related Heroku Add-ons.
Powerful CLI experience
Provision, connect, and configure Heroku Key-Value Store from the comfort of your command line with the Heroku CLI. Leverage powerful modules like Valkey Bloom, and ValkeyJSON to unlock entirely new ways to leverage the power and simplicity of Heroku Key-Value Store within your applications.
Valkey you can trust, on Heroku
Advanced Data Capabilities
Unlock advanced data functionalities with powerful modules such as Valkey Bloom and ValkeyJSON. These modules enhance your Heroku KVS instance with capabilities like efficient probabilistic data structures to reduce database load, and native JSON handling for rich data structures and atomic updates.
High availability
Where application uptime is critical, Heroku Key-Value Store Premium plans offer higher availability through low latency failover of your Valkey instance. We’ll take care of uptime, so you can focus on what matters – your app.
Secure Private Connectivity
Seamlessly and securely connect your Heroku Key-Value Store databases in a Private Space to resources in one or more Amazon VPCs, leveraging PrivateLink for enhanced network isolation and data security.
Bring your own key (BYOK)
Deploy a new Valkey service with your own key created and managed in your private AWS KMS account. You can block access from anyone, at any time, by revoking the key, giving you full control and custody of your sensitive data.
Build real-time HIPAA-compliant apps
Use Heroku Shield for Valkey to handle PHI and PII data safely in-memory. Build a new class of real-time apps with strict security and seamless HIPAA compliance, perfect for regulated industries such as Healthcare & Life Sciences and Financial Services.
Operational expertise
The Heroku team has more experience and world-class expertise running large scale key-value data stores as a service than anyone. For years, customers have relied on our managed in-memory data store services for critical use cases like caching, session management, and real-time leaderboards. Let us run your Valkey instance, so you can focus on what you’re great at.
“Heroku Key-Value Store is the gold standard, and we found it to be a natural fit for our service, especially as it meant that we didn’t have to worry about configuration. That’s one of the beautiful things about Heroku.”
Ready to Get Started?
Sign Up Now View Heroku Key-Value Store Plans
*Redis is a registered trademark of Redis Ltd. Any rights therein are reserved to Redis Ltd. Any use by Heroku is for referential purposes only and does not indicate any sponsorship, endorsement or affiliation between Redis and Heroku.