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Valkey 9.1 Delivers More Performance & Enhanced Security

Written by Michael Larabel in Free Software on 20 May 2026 at 06:04 AM EDT. Add A Comment
Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database.

On the performance front, Valkey 9.1 is reportedly able to achieve 2.1 million requests per second using 512-byte payloads. Valkey 9.1 ships a new I/O threading model, faster streaming operations, higher throughput with GET commands, faster sorted set queries, enabling the hardware clock by default, and other optimizations.

Valkey 9.1 improves security with numbered database-level access control, shifting the Lua scripting engine support into its own module, improving TLS integration, and more.

The new release also exhibits lower memory usage during different operations, improved rehasing performance, the new HGETDEL command to atomically retrieve and delete one or more fields from a hash, MSETEX to set multiple keys with a shared expiration time, and CLUSTERSCAN to enable cluster-wide key scanning across nodes.

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Downloads and more details on the new Valkey 9.1 feature release via Valkey.io. New Valkey benchmarks soon.

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