If you explore Valkey’s documentation you might run across a feature called ‘numbered databases’ which allows you to separate the keyspace into (by default) 16 different databases. Digging into this feature reveals tantalizing ways to avoid key prefixing, house different workloads together on Valkey, and even perform patterns that are otherwise clunky. However, if you’ve done more research outside of the documentation on numbered databases you find advice like “don’t use them,” ...
