Valkey is a high-performance in-memory data structure server, forked from Redis under a BSD-3-Clause license. It serves as a key-value store with support for strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, geospatial indexes, and more. The architecture is event-loop-driven (single-threaded main loop with background I/O threads for persistence, replication, and lazy freeing). It supports clustering (up to 16384 slots), replication (leader-follower with partial resync), persistence (RDB snapshots, AOF logs), Lua scripting (EVAL/FUNCTION), a pluggable module API, TLS, RDMA, and advanced features like client-side caching, hot-key detection, and replication throttling. Key entry points include the `valkey-server` daemon, `valkey-cli` client, `valkey-benchmark` load generator, and `valkey-check-rdb`/`valkey-check-aof` integrity tools. External dependencies include jemalloc (default allocator), Lua 5.1, LZ4, Zstd (optional), OpenSSL (TLS), and RDMA libraries (optional). The codebase is actively maintained with extensive unit and integration tests, and demonstrates high craftsmanship in its lock-free queues, streaming compression, and data structure implementations.
Redisson is a feature-rich Java client for Valkey and Redis that extends basic key-value storage with distributed Java collections, objects, and services. It provides synchronous, asynchronous, and reactive APIs for Redis operations, along with integrations for popular frameworks like Spring, Micronaut, Quarkus, and Hibernate. The library implements advanced Redis features including streams, geo-spatial indexing, pub/sub, bloom filters, and distributed computing primitives. Its architecture features a clean separation between core Redis protocol handling, codec-based serialization, and framework-specific adapters, making it a versatile tool for building distributed applications with Redis as a backend.