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3 self-hosted Upstash alternatives

Managed serverless Redis and Kafka platform providing cloud-hosted key-value and event-streaming services with REST APIs, global replication, and pay-as-you-go billing. Used for low-latency caching, queues, pub/sub and real-time/event-driven applications.

Alternatives to Upstash

Valkey is an open-source, Redis-compatible key/value datastore optimized for caching, queues, and other real-time workloads, with clustering, replication, and extensibility.

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27k stars1.3k forksBSD-3-Clauselast commit Actively maintained

ejabberd is an Erlang/OTP-based messaging server providing XMPP chat and presence, MQTT broker capabilities for IoT, and SIP services for real-time communications.

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6.7k stars1.5k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Redict is a distributed key/value datastore (a Redis OSS 7.2.4 fork) for caching, queues, and fast data access with clustering, replication, and optional TLS.

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What replacing Upstash actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 3 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: BSD-3-Clause. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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