# LanceDB vs Upstash

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Upstash

| Attribute | LanceDB | Upstash |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 58.5 (54% (medium)) | 73.5 (73% (medium)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 100 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 453 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 11,395 | - |
| adoption.package_downloads_weekly | 1,423,043 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"A purpose-built lakehouse designed for AI applications that unifies storage, indexing, and retrieval of multimodal data (text, images, videos, and more) at petabyte scale. Enables fast vector search, metadata filtering, and feature engineering workflows for machine learning workloads without data synchronization overhead. It is indexed under Vector Databases.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What is LanceDB?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"LanceDB supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What platforms does LanceDB support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LanceDB can be deployed cloud / SaaS and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"Can LanceDB be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 15 integrations for LanceDB, including LangChain, LlamaIndex, DuckDB, Apache Arrow, Pandas, Polars, CrewAI and Hugging Face, plus 7 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What does LanceDB integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for LanceDB. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as LanceDB not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://lancedb.com","question":"What security certifications does LanceDB have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. LanceDB is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb","question":"Is LanceDB open source?","confidence":0.99}]` | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Key-Value Stores.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What is Upstash?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans start at $10 per month. Prices are published openly on the vendor's own pricing page. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Is Upstash free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What platforms does Upstash support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Upstash, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Can Upstash be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 11 integrations for Upstash, including Cloudflare Workers, Auth0, MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Debezium, JDBC and FluentBit, plus 3 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"What does Upstash integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed SOC 2, HIPAA and GDPR for Upstash. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Upstash not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/redis-new-pricing","question":"What security certifications does Upstash have?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Upstash is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States.","source":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","question":"Where is Upstash available?","confidence":0.5}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A purpose-built vector database for storing, indexing, and searching across petabytes of multimodal data (text, images, vectors). It provides hybrid search combining vector similarity with full-text search, operates as an embedded library, and is available as self-hosted or managed cloud service. | 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 | `{"deployment":"self_hosted","serverless":true,"storage_tier":"disk_backed","hybrid_search":true,"licence_class":"permissive_oss","multi_tenancy":true,"product_class":"dedicated_dbms","full_text_bm25":true,"horizontal_scale":"sharded_distributed","metadata_filtering":"post_filter"}` | `{"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 | 15 | 7 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"LangChain"},{"name":"LlamaIndex"},{"name":"DuckDB"},{"name":"Apache Arrow"},{"name":"Pandas"},{"name":"Polars"},{"name":"CrewAI"},{"name":"Hugging Face"},{"name":"Apache Fluss"},{"name":"Ray"},{"name":"Volcano Engine"},{"name":"Voxel51"},{"name":"Continue"},{"name":"OpenClaw"},{"name":"LeRobot"}]` | `[{"name":"Cloudflare Workers"},{"name":"Auth0"},{"name":"MongoDB"},{"name":"MySQL"},{"name":"PostgreSQL"},{"name":"Debezium"},{"name":"JDBC"},{"name":"FluentBit"},{"name":"Drizzle","native":true,"category":"orm","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Vercel AI SDK","native":false,"category":"ai","direction":"bidirectional"},{"name":"Redis protocol clients","native":true,"direction":"bidirectional"}]` |
| language.primary | Rust | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | `{"primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://lancedb.com","retrievedAt":"2026-09-10T21:10:06.700Z"}` | `{"type":"hybrid","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Pay-as-you-go","summary":"$0.20 per 100K commands plus $0.25/GB storage (1 GB free)","features":["1 GB free storage","Per-request pricing","No minimum charge"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":100000,"unit":"commands"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.2,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"GB"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.25,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Usage-based billing without long-term commitment","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"1 GB free"}},{"free":false,"name":"Fixed plan","summary":"$10 to $1,500 per month depending on storage and throughput requirements","features":["Guaranteed capacity","No per-request overage charges","Flexible cancellation"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"kind":"fixed","amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},{"kind":"fixed","amount":1500,"period":"month","currency":"USD"}],"description":"Flat monthly rate with predictable costs and guaranteed capacity","contactSales":false},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","summary":"Custom pricing for 100K+ commands per second and above","features":["Custom capacity and SLAs","Dedicated support"],"description":"Custom solutions for high-volume production workloads","contactSales":true,"includedLimits":{"commands":"100K+ per second"}}],"summary":"Free tier available. Pay-as-you-go from $0 (1 GB storage free), or fixed plans $10–$1,500/month","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://upstash.com/blog/aws-elasticache-pricing-explained-2026-full-cost-breakdown","retrievedAt":"2026-09-08T17:37:50.363Z","startingPrice":{"amount":10,"period":"month","currency":"USD"},"billingPeriods":["month"]}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | freemium |
| pricing.price_level | free | low |
| pricing.starting_price | - | `{"amount":10,"currency":"USD"}` |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.6","date":"2026-09-08T12:15:03Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.5","date":"2026-09-08T12:04:06Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.4","date":"2026-09-06T20:47:14Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.3","date":"2026-09-06T09:00:48Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.2","date":"2026-09-05T23:26:18Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.1","date":"2026-09-02T05:29:00Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.39.0-beta.0","date":"2026-09-01T13:16:24Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.39.0-beta.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0","date":"2026-08-31T07:39:14Z","type":"stable","version":"v0.38.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.15","date":"2026-08-31T07:33:54Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.15"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.14","date":"2026-08-30T15:16:50Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.14"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.13","date":"2026-08-30T06:09:38Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.13"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.12","date":"2026-08-28T00:52:17Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.12"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.11","date":"2026-08-27T04:32:16Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.11"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.9","date":"2026-08-25T10:32:32Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.9"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.8","date":"2026-08-25T06:26:50Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.8"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.10","date":"2026-08-25T10:37:30Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.10"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.7","date":"2026-08-24T21:09:33Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.6","date":"2026-08-23T17:33:36Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.5","date":"2026-08-23T08:08:08Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/lancedb/lancedb/releases/tag/v0.38.0-beta.4","date":"2026-08-22T16:39:04Z","type":"prerelease","version":"v0.38.0-beta.4"}]` | - |
| reliability.sla_pct | - | 99.99 |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | yes | yes |
| security.gdpr | yes | yes |
| security.hipaa | yes | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=lancedb&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Vector Databases)

| Capability | LanceDB | Upstash |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Managed |
| Serverless / consumption pricing | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Index** |  |  |
| ANN index (HNSW / IVF / DiskANN / ScaNN / flat) | - | HNSW |
| Distance metrics (cosine / dot / Euclidean) | - | cosine |
| **Query** |  |  |
| Metadata filtering | Post-filter | Pre-filter |
| Hybrid search (dense + sparse fusion) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Built-in BM25 / lexical | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Storage** |  |  |
| Quantization | - | - |
| On-disk vs in-memory | Disk-backed | persistent |
| **Scale** |  |  |
| Multi-tenancy (namespaces / collections / tenants) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Horizontal scale | Sharded / distributed | Sharded / distributed |
| **Consistency** |  |  |
| Consistency | - | Strong |
| **Licensing** |  |  |
| Licence class | Permissive OSS | Proprietary |
| **Classification** |  |  |
| Purpose-built vs feature-of-parent | Dedicated DBMS | Dedicated DBMS |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-09-21T03:35:21.197Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*