Comparison

Deep Lake vs Upstash

On the evidence we track, Upstash leads this comparison with a composite score of 73/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

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Deep Lake60
★Upstash73
Score
vioscaleAI score
Deep Lake60 / 100low · 38%
Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Model
Deep Lakecommercial
Upstashfreemium
Price level
Deep Lakelow
Upstashlow
Starting price
Deep Lake–
Upstash$5
Transparent
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Integrations
Count
Deep Lake3
Upstash6
Security
Disclosure policy
Deep Lake–
Upstash✓
Gdpr
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Hipaa
Deep Lake–
Upstash✓
Soc2
Deep Lake–
Upstash✓
Reliability
Sla pct
Deep Lake–
Upstash99.99
Status page
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Deep Lake1,384
Upstash–
Github stars
Deep Lake9,251
Upstash–
Package downloads weekly
Deep Lake22,561
Upstash–
Release
Cadence days
Deep Lake11
Upstash–
History
Deep Lake20 items
Upstash–
License
Spdx
Deep LakeApache-2.0
Upstash–
Language
Primary
Deep LakeC++
Upstash–
Content
Faq
Deep Lake6 items
Upstash7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for vector databases. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Deployment
Deployment
Deep LakeManaged
UpstashManaged
Serverless / consumption pricing
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Index
ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat)
Deep Lake-
UpstashHNSW
Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean)
Deep Lake-
Upstashcosine
Query
Metadata filtering
Deep Lake-
UpstashPre-filter
Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion)
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Built-in BM25 / lexical
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Storage
Quantization
Deep Lake-
Upstash-
On-disk vs in-memory
Deep LakeTiered
Upstashpersistent
Scale
Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants)
Deep Lake-
Upstash✓
Horizontal scale
Deep Lake-
UpstashSharded / distributed
Consistency
Consistency
Deep Lake-
UpstashStrong
Licensing
Licence class
Deep LakeSource-available
UpstashProprietary
Classification
Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent
Deep LakeDedicated DBMS
UpstashDedicated DBMS

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Deep Lake

A platform for storing and indexing diverse data types to enable searching and retrieval in AI-driven applications, with comprehensive data type support and indexing capabilities.

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

A cloud platform offering serverless Redis, vector databases, message queues, and workflow orchestration designed for developers building serverless applications, with usage-based and fixed-rate pricing options.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Deep Lake

from $99/moHybridFree tier7-day trial

From $99/seat/month (Team) or pay-as-you-go Basic with $15 credit. 7-day free trial available.

  • BasicFree
    • Pay as you go compute
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • 1 business day support
  • Team$99/seat/month, 7-day free trial
    • 1M traces/month per seat
    • 10M queries/month per seat
    • Daily backups with 1-day retention
    • SSO (Google/Microsoft)
    • MFA
    • +2 more
  • EnterpriseContact sales
as of verify ↗

Upstash

Leader
from $5/moHybridFree tier

Free tier (30 MB), Essentials from $5/month, Pro from $200/month

  • FreeFree
    • No replication
    • Single database
    • Limited throughput
  • Essentials$5/month (250 MB) to $216/month (12 GB)
    • Predefined database sizes (250 MB to 12 GB)
    • Bandwidth and throughput limits per tier
    • Optional high availability
    • Flex tier with reduced throughput
  • Pro$200/month minimum + $0.014/hour usage-based billing
    • Unlimited memory
    • Dedicated VPC infrastructure
    • Multiple databases per subscription
    • Active-Active multi-region writes
    • Auto-tiering
    • +1 more
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
CLI
Deep Lake✗
Upstash✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✓
Self-hosted
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✗
Hybrid
Deep Lake✓
Upstash✗

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

In common (1)
  • PostgreSQL

Deep Lake

4 total - 3 not shared
  • LangChain
  • LlamaIndex
  • Weights & Biases
Independently observed

Upstash

Leader
13 total - 12 not shared
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Auth0
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Debezium
  • JDBC
  • FluentBit
  • Drizzle
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Redis protocol clients
  • Vercel
  • Aiven
Independently observed
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