valkey-glide

Valkey GLIDE

Valkey General Language Independent Driver for the Enterprise (GLIDE), is an open-source Valkey client library. Valkey GLIDE is one of the official client libraries for Valkey, and it supports all Valkey commands. Valkey GLIDE supports Valkey 7.2 and above, and Redis open-source 6.2, 7.0 and 7.2. Application programmers use Valkey GLIDE to safely and reliably connect their applications to Valkey- and Redis OSS- compatible services. Valkey GLIDE is designed for reliability, optimized performance, and high-availability, for Valkey and Redis OSS based applications. It is sponsored and supported by AWS, and is pre-configured with best practices learned from over a decade of operating Redis OSS-compatible services used by hundreds of thousands of customers. To help ensure consistency in application development and operations, Valkey GLIDE is implemented using a core driver framework, written in Rust, with language specific extensions. This design ensures consistency in features across languages and reduces overall complexity.

Supported Engine Versions

Refer to the Supported Engine Versions table for details.

Getting Started - Python Wrapper

System Requirements

The release of Valkey GLIDE was tested on the following platforms:

Linux:

• Ubuntu 22.04.1 (x86_64 and aarch64)
• Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) (x86_64)

macOS:

• macOS (Apple silicon/aarch_64 and Intel/x86_64) Testing are being done on macOS arm64 platforms. Please note that the package is not tested on macOS intel platforms, only minimal testing is done during CD.

Python Supported Versions

Python Version
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13

Installation and Setup

Installing via Package Manager (pip)

To install Valkey GLIDE using pip, follow these steps:

• Open your terminal.
• Execute the command below:

  $ pip install valkey-glide
  

• After installation, confirm the client is accessible by running:

  $ python3
  >>> import glide
  

Basic Examples

Cluster Mode:

>>> import asyncio
>>> from glide import GlideClusterClientConfiguration, NodeAddress, GlideClusterClient
>>> async def test_cluster_client():
...     addresses = [NodeAddress("address.example.com", 6379)]
...     config = GlideClusterClientConfiguration(addresses)
...     client = await GlideClusterClient.create(config)
...     set_result = await client.set("foo", "bar")
...     print(f"Set response is {set_result}")
...     get_result = await client.get("foo")
...     print(f"Get response is {get_result}")
... 
>>> asyncio.run(test_cluster_client())
Set response is OK
Get response is bar

Standalone Mode:

>>> import asyncio
>>> from glide import GlideClientConfiguration, NodeAddress, GlideClient
>>> async def test_standalone_client():
...     addresses = [
...             NodeAddress("server_primary.example.com", 6379),
...             NodeAddress("server_replica.example.com", 6379)
...     ]
...     config = GlideClientConfiguration(addresses)
...     client = await GlideClient.create(config)
...     set_result = await client.set("foo", "bar")
...     print(f"Set response is {set_result}")
...     get_result = await client.get("foo")
...     print(f"Get response is {get_result}")
... 
>>> asyncio.run(test_standalone_client())
Set response is OK
Get response is bar

For complete examples with error handling, please refer to the cluster example and the standalone example.

Documentation

Visit our wiki for examples and further details on TLS, Read strategy, Timeouts and various other configurations.

Building & Testing

Development instructions for local building & testing the package are in the DEVELOPER.md file.