# etcd vs Upstash

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Upstash

| Attribute | etcd | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 63.7 (44% (low)) | 73.5 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 96 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 39,452 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 52,178 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | etcd is a strongly consistent, distributed key-value store that provides a reliable way to store data that needs to be accessed by a distributed system or cluster of machines. It gracefully handles leader elections during network partitions and can tolerate machine failure. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"clustering":"consensus","deployment":"self_hosted","consistency":"strong","persistence":"append_log","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"persistent","licence_class":"permissive","wire_protocol":"grpc","pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","redis_api_compat":"none"}` | `{"ann_index":"HNSW","clustering":"replicated","deployment":"managed","serverless":true,"consistency":"strong","persistence":"durable","eviction_ttl":true,"storage_tier":"persistent","transactions":"multi_exec","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"proprietary","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","wire_protocol":"resp","full_text_bm25":true,"multi_threaded":false,"pubsub_streams":true,"data_structures":"rich_types","distance_metrics":"cosine","horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","redis_api_compat":"full","metadata_filtering":"pre_filter"}` |
| integrations.count | 80 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Vitess"},{"name":"fleet"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"Puppet"},{"name":"confd"},{"name":"AWS ECS"},{"name":"SkyDNS"},{"name":"discodns"},{"name":"Hiera"},{"name":"Chef"},{"name":"BOSH"},{"name":"etcdctl"},{"name":"etcd-backup"},{"name":"etcd-dump"},{"name":"etcd-fs"},{"name":"etcd-browser"},{"name":"etcd-console"},{"name":"etcd-viewer"},{"name":"etcdtool"},{"name":"etcd-rest"},{"name":"etcdsh"},{"name":"etcdloadtest"},{"name":"etcd-workbench"},{"name":"Apache Celix"},{"name":"ZeroMQ"},{"name":"CoreOS"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"GPG"}]` | `[{"name":"Cloudflare Workers"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Debezium"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"FluentBit"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://etcd.io","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T16:38:34.813Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","summary":"$0.20 per 100K commands, $0.25/GB after 1 GB free","features":["1 GB storage included","Automatic scaling","Per-request billing","No minimum charge when idle"],"components":[{"kind":"per_unit","unit":"100K commands","amount":0.2,"period":"per","currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.25,"currency":"USD"}],"contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"1 GB free"}},{"free":false,"name":"Fixed Plans","summary":"$10 to $1,500/month depending on tier","features":["Entry plan: 250 MB storage, 50 GB bandwidth","High-end plan: 500 GB storage, 20 TB bandwidth, 16k commands/sec","No per-command billing","Predictable costs"],"components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Flat monthly pricing with included throughput and storage","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing","features":["100K+ commands per second","Custom SLA","Dedicated support"],"description":"Custom plans for high-throughput production workloads","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"throughput":"100K+ commands per second"}}],"summary":"Pay-as-you-go from $0 idle + $0.20 per 100K commands; fixed plans from $10–$1,500/month; enterprise available","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","retrievedAt":"2026-08-24T22:36:52.447Z","startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | no | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.7.1","date":"2026-07-23T19:37:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.14","date":"2026-07-23T19:29:31Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.33","date":"2026-07-23T19:12:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.33"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.7.0","date":"2026-07-08T18:26:53Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.13","date":"2026-07-01T20:43:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.32","date":"2026-07-01T20:32:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.32"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.7.0-rc.0","date":"2026-06-01T21:27:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.7.0-rc.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.12","date":"2026-06-01T20:59:07Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.31","date":"2026-06-01T20:46:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.31"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.4.45","date":"2026-06-01T20:35:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.45"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.7.0-beta.0","date":"2026-05-19T20:02:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v3.7.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.11","date":"2026-05-01T18:55:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.30","date":"2026-05-01T18:46:50Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.30"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.4.44","date":"2026-05-01T18:38:42Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.44"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.10","date":"2026-04-01T18:34:55Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.29","date":"2026-04-01T18:29:01Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.29"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.4.43","date":"2026-04-01T18:23:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.43"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.6.9","date":"2026-03-20T18:08:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.6.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.5.28","date":"2026-03-20T17:41:08Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.5.28"},{"url":"https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/releases/tag/v3.4.42","date":"2026-03-20T17:04:27Z","type":"stable","version":"v3.4.42"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.scorecard | 6.7 | - |
| security.soc2 | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":8,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=go.etcd.io%2Fetcd&per_page=100","last_12m":3,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Key-Value Stores)

| Capability | etcd | Upstash |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Storage tier | Persistent | Persistent |
| Persistence | Append-only log | Fully durable |
| Data structures | Rich types | Rich types |
| **Protocol** |  |  |
| Wire protocol | gRPC | RESP (Redis) |
| **Distribution** |  |  |
| Clustering | Consensus (Raft) | Replicated |
| Consistency | Strong | Strong |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| Eviction / TTL policies | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-threaded | - | ✗ |
| Pub/Sub / streams | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transactions / atomic ops | - | MULTI-EXEC |
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Proprietary |
| **Compatibility** |  |  |
| Redis API compatibility | None | Full |

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:15:46.676Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*