Percona today announced the availability of Percona Support for Valkey—a comprehensive, responsive, and flexible service offering that promises to maintain reliable, optimized Valkey deployments whether on-premises, hybrid, or in the cloud. In addition, for organizations looking to transition to Valkey, Percona now offers comprehensive Valkey Migration services, facilitating a seamless, secure, and disruption-free switch from Redis OSS to Valkey.

“When the Linux Foundation first announced its plans for Valkey last March, Percona immediately threw its support behind the project,” said Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona. “Beyond the simple fact that many of our customers also relied on Redis for their data operations, we at Percona were motivated by our fundamental belief in the principles of open source—that an open world is a better world—and we remain committed to doing everything we can to help foster and promote such a world.”

Announced by The Linux Foundation in March of 2024, Valkey is an open source fork of the popular Redis in-memory, NoSQL key-value datastore. The project was launched in response to Redis’s decision to abandon its long-held commitment to open source licensing in favor of a much more restrictive, source-available model. Today, Redis is now dual-licensed under the Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1), while Valkey has maintained the datastore’s original open source BSD license.

In the five months between its first formal release (Valkey 7.2.5) in April 2024 and its most recent (Valkey 8.0.0) in September, Valkey has seen major improvements in performance, reliability and efficiency—proving itself to be a dynamic, innovative open source project on course to remain competitive with Redis and other popular in-memory datastores.

As a result, Valkey is already enjoying significant levels of interest and adoption. In a survey report from Percona, 75% of Redis users said they were either actively testing, considering or had already adopted Valkey. The study also found that more than three-quarters (76%) of organizations plan to rely on third-party enterprise support for their Valkey deployments.

Percona Support for Valkey boasts several key benefits designed to maintain optimal performance with minimal headaches:

• Real-Time Expertise: 24x7x365 responsive support from Valkey specialists.
• Industry-Best SLAs: Reliable and transparent response times for incidents of every severity level.
• Open Source Commitment: Freedom from vendor lock-in with full support for Valkey.
• Customizable Solutions: Tailored plans to fit your unique business needs
  Continuous Development: Percona experts continue to build out new capabilities around programmability and security,

Percona Support for Valkey is offered in two core tiers or packages—Advanced, for production environments and Premium, for mission-critical environments. Both offerings help mitigate and resolve some of the most common issues that negatively impact Valkey performance, including inefficient key-value store configurations; high-latency operations and response times; complex Redis-to-Valkey migrations; and misconfigured or under-optimized settings.

In addition to the aforementioned Valkey Migration services, Percona has also introduced the all new Redis OSS Health Assessment—an in-depth, preemptive evaluation of an organization’s existing Redis deployment(s) and overall migration readiness. Together with its core migration services, Percona helps organizations avoid licensing limitations while optimizing database performance and minimizing downtime; for a reliable, highly-performant open source database solution.