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Comparison

etcd 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.

etcd full profile →Upstash full profile →
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etcd59
★Upstash73
Score
vioscaleAI score
etcd59 / 100low · 43%
Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tier
etcd✗
Upstash✓
Model
Price level
etcdfree
Upstashlow
Starting price
etcd–
Upstash$5
Transparent
etcd✓
Upstash✓
Integrations
Count
etcd80
Upstash6
Security
Disclosure policy
etcd–
Upstash✓
Gdpr
etcd–
Upstash✓
Hipaa
etcd–
Upstash✓
Scorecard
etcd6.9
Upstash–
Soc2
etcd–
Upstash✓
Trust center
Vulnerabilities
Reliability
Sla pct
etcd–
Upstash99.99
Status page
etcd–
Upstash✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
etcd39,452
Upstash–
Github stars
etcd52,359
Upstash–
Activity
Commits last 30d
etcd70
Upstash–
Release
History
etcd20 items
Upstash–
License
Spdx
etcdApache-2.0
Upstash–
Language
Primary
etcdGo
Upstash–
Market
Availability
Content
Faq
etcd6 items
Upstash7 items

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for key-value stores. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Storage
Storage tier
etcdPersistent
UpstashPersistent
Persistence
etcdAppend-only log
UpstashFully durable
Data structures
etcdRich types
UpstashRich types
Protocol
Wire protocol
etcdgRPC
UpstashRESP (Redis)
Distribution
Clustering
etcdConsensus (Raft)
UpstashReplicated
Consistency
etcdStrong
UpstashStrong
Ops
Eviction / TTL policies
etcd✓
Upstash✓
Multi-threaded
etcd-
Upstash✗
Pub/Sub / streams
etcd✓
Upstash✓
Transactions / atomic ops
etcd-
UpstashMULTI-EXEC
Deployment
Deployment
etcdSelf-hosted
UpstashManaged
Licensing
Licence class
etcdPermissive OSS
UpstashProprietary
Compatibility
Redis API compatibility
etcdNone
UpstashFull

What each one is

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

etcd

A distributed key-value store designed to reliably store and manage critical shared state across multiple machines. It provides strong consistency guarantees via consensus, automatic TLS encryption, and gRPC APIs.

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.

etcd

Open source
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
etcd✗
Upstash✓
macOS
etcd✓
Upstash✗
Windows
etcd✓
Upstash✗
Linux
etcd✓
Upstash✗
CLI
etcd✓
Upstash✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
etcd✗
Upstash✓
Self-hosted
etcd✓
Upstash✗

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL

etcd

33 total - 31 not shared
  • Kubernetes
  • Vitess
  • fleet
  • Docker
  • Puppet
  • confd
  • AWS ECS
  • SkyDNS
  • discodns
  • Hiera
  • Chef
  • BOSH
  • etcdctl
  • etcd-backup
  • etcd-dump
  • etcd-fs
  • etcd-browser
  • etcd-console
  • etcd-viewer
  • etcdtool
  • etcd-rest
  • etcdsh
  • etcdloadtest
  • etcd-workbench
  • +7 more
Independently observed

Upstash

Leader
13 total - 11 not shared
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Auth0
  • MongoDB
  • Debezium
  • JDBC
  • FluentBit
  • Drizzle
  • Vercel AI SDK
  • Redis protocol clients
  • Vercel
  • Aiven
Independently observed
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