Vector search without the RAM tax.
Redis, Upstash, Valkey — all RAM-bound. When your vectors outgrow memory, costs explode. RAM costs $3-5/GB/month. Object storage costs $0.02/GB/month. LanceDB delivers near-memory performance at object storage prices.
Redis for caching. LanceDB for vectors.
Redis is brilliant at caching. But vectors aren't a caching workload — they're a storage workload. Stop paying RAM prices for data that should live on disk. And get native full-text + hybrid search that Redis doesn't offer.
Redis Stack / Redis Enterprise
LanceDB
Cost
RAM pricing - $3-5/GB/month. Scales linearly.
Object storage - $0.02/GB/month. Up to 100x savings.
Scale
Bounded by memory.
20 PB largest table. 20K+ QPS. Billions of vectors.
Search
Vector search only. No native full-text.
Native vector + full-text + SQL hybrid in one query.
Architecture
In-memory, cache-first
Disk-native with compute-storage separation.
Best for
Fast cache + small vector sets
Large-scale vector search at object storage cost.
Serverless doesn't have to mean RAM pricing
Upstash offers serverless convenience, but you're still paying for memory. LanceDB is serverless-friendly AND runs on object storage with native hybrid search.
Upstash Vector
LanceDB
Cost
Serverless but still RAM-based pricing
Object storage rates. Up to 100x savings.
Scale
Memory-bound limits
Petabyte scale. Billions of vectors
Search
Vector search only
Native vector + full-text + SQL hybrid in one query.
Best for
Small serverless vector workloads
Serverless vector search at any scale.
Even open-source RAM is expensive
Valkey is open-source Redis. But open-source doesn't make RAM cheaper. You're still paying $3-5/GB/month for memory infrastructure at scale.
Valkey
LanceDB
Cost
Open-source but RAM infrastructure - $3-5/GB/month
Open-source on object storage - $0.02/GB/month
Operations
Manage your own memory cluster
Stateless compute, object storage durability
Search
Vector search only
Native vector + full-text + SQL hybrid in one query.
Scale
Memory-bound
20 PB largest table. 20K+ QPS.
Best for
Self-hosted cache + small vectors
Self-hosted vector search at scale.


