# Valkey: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 4 judge labels across 1 category by 3 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/valkey

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [NoSQL databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/index.md) | 0% | 22 | 0% | 4 |

## What the models said for it

- "look into Valkey (the Linux Foundation fork backed by AWS, Google, and Linux community)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, NoSQL)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Valkey, from 6 of the 8 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- aerospike.com: 3
- techtarget.com: 3
- capterra.com: 2
- couchbase.com: 2
- elastic.co: 2
- en.wikipedia.org: 2
- github.com: 2
- percona.com: 2
- sourceforge.net: 2
- arxiv.org: 1

### Pages cited

- https://aerospike.com/blog/ten-best-nosql-cloud-databases: 3
- https://github.com/quanpan302/KB-engineering-handbook/blob/main/content/hld/part-2-building-blocks/05-nosql-databases.md: 2
- https://aerospike.com/blog/the-best-distributed-nosql-database: 1
- https://aerospike.com/files/white-papers/five-signs-youve-outgrown-cassandra-whitepaper.pdf: 1
- https://arxiv.org/html/2503.02817v2: 1
- https://augmentcode.com/tools/sql-vs-nosql-for-enterprise-development: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/smart-business/resources-for-smb/sql-vs-nosql: 1
- https://brightsec.com/blog/nosql-injection-explained-what-it-is-and-how-to-prevent-it: 1

## In its own words

What Valkey's own pages state, read 2026-09-28. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: open source (BSD) high-performance key/value datastore (https://valkey.io/)
- Customers named: Percona, Alibaba Cloud, Aiven, UpCloud, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Ericsson, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

## What it publishes

Every page valkey.io exposes, read 2026-09-29: 770 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 67 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 39 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 1 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.