Redis to valkey?

[mlathara]

I was wondering if there was any interest or ongoing work in migrating from redis to valkey? Or in adding valkey as a separate backend for this project?

[Dreamsorcerer]

If someone wants to do the work, I think switching the existing redis backend to valkey would be fine.

[jules-ch]

Monkeypatching should do the trick:

>>> import valkey.asyncio as redis
>>> redis.Redis = redis.Valkey # valkey does not ship with Redis in asyncio module
>>> from aiocache import BaseCache, Cache
>>> aiocache.backends.redis.redis = redis

>>> cache = Cache.from_url(settings.CACHE_URL)
<valkey.client.Valkey(<valkey.connection.ConnectionPool(<valkey.connection.Connection(host=127.0.0.1,port=6379,db=0)>)>)>

[Dreamsorcerer]

If all you need is to change the import, should be simple to create a PR, rather than monkeypatching.

[jules-ch]

People might be interested in choosing their client either redis or valkey.
Creating a dedicated backend might be the way to do just that.

[amirreza8002]

if this is still of interest i'll do the work

the way i think would be good is to make a base class (let's call it key_value(as they are key-value databases))
then implement each client in a separate file (valkey and redis)

i think the tests can be re-used with some parametrizing as well

let me know what you think

[Dreamsorcerer]

The valkey library should work fine with Redis still, so I see little point in maintaining both. By the time they start forking in incompatible ways I suspect very few people will be using Redis anymore. So, let's just proceed with switching to valkey.

One thing that might be worth looking at though is switching the implementation to valkey-glide, as it looks like that might have better performance.

[amirreza8002]

ok then
i'll dig around valkey-glide to see how we could make use of it

one question tho, will there only be a client for standalone valkey servers, or is there plan for cluster support as well?

[Dreamsorcerer]

i'll dig around valkey-glide to see how we could make use of it

If it's too complex, feel free to stick with the valkey-py one, but would probably be nice to have.

one question tho, will there only be a client for standalone valkey servers, or is there plan for cluster support as well?

I have little familiarity with it, feel free to propose a solution for cluster support (ideally in a separate PR).

[asafpamzn]

I'm a valkey-glide maintainer. I will be happy to help. In our benchmarks it provides better performance and also more robust.

[amirreza8002]

hi @asafpamzn,
good to have you, i'll make a PR with my codes soon, it still has some problems
i'll continue to work on it, and appreciate any help to solve the issues it has

[Dreamsorcerer]

@asafpamzn If you could do a review of #975, that'd be great. I've left a couple of comments, which I wonder if they are limitations of glide, so would be good to get your feedback on those.

[asafpamzn]

@Dreamsorcerer , I answered the questions, please review. In general, we will be a happy to enhance glide to meet the requirements of aiocache. Thus, if anything is needed don't hesitate to ask.