Percona for Valkey vs Momento: decide who runs the cache

Both options give you Valkey. Percona provides supported software and expertise for infrastructure you choose, with advisory support or separately scoped database operations. Momento Cache gives you dedicated, high-performance Valkey with cluster operations built into the service. Choose Percona to retain your platform design. Choose Momento when you want to hand off cluster maintenance, failover, and client connection management.

At a glance

About Percona for Valkey

Percona provides Valkey software packages, commercial support, and managed database operations for customer-selected infrastructure. Its services cover on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. Expert Support provides advice, while ExpertOps performs database operations within an agreed scope.

Recent updates

September 2, 2026 - Momento introduced Cluster and Flex capacity for Momento Cache. Both provide dedicated, managed Valkey resources. Cluster exposes topology choices, while Flex selects topology within capacity bounds, giving teams a choice in how they configure capacity while Momento operates the cluster.

Keep cluster maintenance off your application team’s backlog

Percona’s Valkey packages are prebuilt, validated, and security-scanned for deployments on cloud, on-premises, or hybrid infrastructure. They fit a team that wants commercial expertise alongside its own platform.

The Percona service you choose determines who handles the database work. Expert Support helps diagnose problems and recommends actions for your team to execute. ExpertOps performs agreed operations such as monitoring, tuning, and maintenance. Your team still owns architecture and change approvals, along with the underlying operating system, Kubernetes, and application.

With Momento Cache, your team can focus on the application while Momento handles cluster health, failover, rolling updates, and security patches. A Valkey patch or failed node belongs to the service’s operating work. You keep control over capacity without taking on the cluster lifecycle.

Give a growing application fleet a managed connection layer

An expanding fleet of application instances creates connection work alongside demand for cache memory. In a Percona deployment, client access and topology remain part of your platform design.

Momento lets you serve that growing fleet through a managed gateway built to scale to millions of clients. It handles connection management, TLS, authentication, and routing ahead of dedicated Valkey capacity. Applications use supported Valkey and Redis clients in standalone mode, so they don’t have to discover backend nodes or track topology changes.

Try Momento Cache

Momento Cache puts dedicated, high-performance Valkey behind a managed gateway that keeps client integration stable as your application grows. Choose Cluster for direct control over instance types, shards, and replicas, or Flex to set capacity and replication bounds while Momento selects the topology. Both include built-in autoscaling and fully managed cluster operations.

Talk to a Momento solution engineer to evaluate the capacity model and configuration that fit your workload.

Frequently asked questions

How do the starting prices compare?

Percona requires a quote for the service you need. Momento starts at $20.70/GB-month, with cluster operations included in the managed service.

What production commitments can I choose?

Percona offers support response from 15 minutes. A hosted Valkey uptime SLA is unknown. Momento offers a 99.99% uptime SLA and support response from 15 minutes. One Momento support plan covers all products and accounts in your organization.

Can I retain explicit topology choices with Momento?

Yes. Cluster lets you choose instances, shards, replicas, and zones. With Flex, you set capacity and replication bounds, and Momento selects and adjusts topology within them. Both include the same built-in autoscaling and keep cluster operations with Momento.