Comparison

Riak KV 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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Riak KV32

★Upstash73

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Riak KV	UpstashLeader
vioscaleAI score	32 / 100low · 26%	73 / 100medium · 72%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	commercial	freemium
Price levelpricing.price_level	low	low
Starting pricepricing.starting_price	-	$5
Transparentpricing.transparent	-	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	4	6
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	-	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	-	✓
Hipaasecurity.hipaa	-	✓
Soc2security.soc2	-	✓
Reliability
Sla pctreliability.sla_pct	-	99.99
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	✓
Adoption
Github starsadoption.github_stars	18	-
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	0	-
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	-
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Erlang	-
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	-	Available worldwide · Popular in US
Content
Faqcontent.faq	5 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Riak KV32 / 100low · 26%

Upstash73 / 100medium · 72%

Pricing

Free tier

Riak KV✓

Upstash✓

Model

Riak KVcommercial

Upstashfreemium

Price level

Riak KVlow

Upstashlow

Starting price

Riak KV–

Upstash$5

Transparent

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Integrations

Count

Riak KV4

Upstash6

Security

Disclosure policy

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Gdpr

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Hipaa

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Soc2

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Reliability

Sla pct

Riak KV–

Upstash99.99

Status page

Riak KV✓

Upstash✓

Adoption

Github stars

Riak KV18

Upstash–

Activity

Commits last 30d

Riak KV0

Upstash–

License

Spdx

Riak KVApache-2.0

Upstash–

Language

Primary

Riak KVErlang

Upstash–

Market

Availability

Riak KV–

UpstashAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

Content

Faq

Riak KV5 items

Upstash7 items

Capabilities

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

Capability comparison for Key-Value Stores
Capability	Riak KV	Upstash
Storage
Storage tier	Persistent	Persistent
Persistence	-	Fully durable
Data structures	KV-only	Rich types
Protocol
Wire protocol	-	RESP (Redis)
Distribution
Clustering	Sharded	Replicated
Consistency	Tunable	Strong
Ops
Eviction / TTL policies	✓	✓
Multi-threaded	-	✗
Pub/Sub / streams	-	✓
Transactions / atomic ops	-	MULTI-EXEC
Deployment
Deployment	Self-hosted	Managed
Licensing
Licence class	-	Proprietary
Compatibility
Redis API compatibility	-	Full

Storage

Storage tier

Riak KVPersistent

UpstashPersistent

Persistence

Riak KV-

UpstashFully durable

Data structures

Riak KVKV-only

UpstashRich types

Protocol

Wire protocol

Riak KV-

UpstashRESP (Redis)

Distribution

Clustering

Riak KVSharded

UpstashReplicated

Consistency

Riak KVTunable

UpstashStrong

Ops

Eviction / TTL policies

Riak KV✓

Upstash✓

Multi-threaded

Riak KV-

Upstash✗

Pub/Sub / streams

Riak KV-

Upstash✓

Transactions / atomic ops

Riak KV-

UpstashMULTI-EXEC

Deployment

Riak KVSelf-hosted

UpstashManaged

Licensing

Licence class

Riak KV-

UpstashProprietary

Compatibility

Redis API compatibility

Riak KV-

UpstashFull

What each one is

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

Riak KV

A scalable, enterprise-focused database solution designed for distributed data storage and retrieval at scale.

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.

Riak KV

Free tier

as of 2026-08-03verify ↗

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 2026-10-06verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Riak KV	Upstash
WebPlatforms	-	✓
CLIPlatforms	-	✓
Cloud / SaaSDeployment	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✗

Platforms

Web

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

CLI

Riak KV–

Upstash✓

Deployment

Cloud / SaaS

Riak KV✓

Upstash✓

Self-hosted

Riak KV✓

Upstash✗

Integrations

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

Riak KV

4 total

Apache Spark
Apache Solr
Apache Mesos
Redis

Independently observed

Upstash

Leader

13 total

Cloudflare Workers
Auth0
MongoDB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Debezium
JDBC
FluentBit
Drizzle
Vercel AI SDK
Redis protocol clients
Vercel
Aiven

Independently observed

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