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Announcing Valkey 9.0 for Amazon ElastiCache

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This article announces Valkey 9.0 support for Amazon ElastiCache, bringing new performance and capability enhancements to the open-source in-memory datastore.

  • Built-in full-text and hybrid search capabilities reduce need for separate search infrastructure
  • Engine-level optimizations deliver up to 40% higher throughput for pipelined workloads
  • Hash field expiration enables TTLs on individual fields within cached objects
  • Numbered databases in cluster mode support multi-tenant workloads with logical isolation
  • Polygon queries expand geospatial search beyond radius and bounding-box searches
  • Available at no additional cost in all AWS Regions with zero-downtime upgrades

Valkey 9.0 simplifies architectures for real-time analytics, AI-driven retrieval, and high-throughput caching by consolidating search, performance, and multi-tenancy capabilities into a single engine.



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