Last updated December 20, 2024



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FAQ
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature  |  Cloudflare D1 |  FaunaDB |  Xata.io | |
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine  | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite  | Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system  | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch  | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support  | ||||
API  | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API  | JavaScript package for serverless environment  | TypeScript SDK  | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.  | Cloudflare Workers runtime  | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions  | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments  | |
Developer Experience  | ||||
Database type  | OLTP  | OLTP  | OLTP, OLAP  | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based  | Relational, SQL  | Document-relational, NoSQL  | Relational  | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.  | Cloudflare Workers runtime  | fuana-shell  | @xata/cli  | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication   | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions  | JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API  | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API  | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,   | SQL  | FQL, GraphQL  | JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL)  | |
ACID compliant ACID  is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps  | ACID compliant  | Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database  | ||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance  | Doesn't have support, Only for local development  | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP  | Doesn't have support  | |
Backups  | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2  | Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user.   | Requires custom solution via REST API  | |
Security & Compliance Offerings  | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.  | N/A  | |||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication  | N/A  | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level  | N/A  | TLS  | TLS  | |
SSO  | N/A  | N/A  | ||
Monitoring and analytics  | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes  | N/A  | Document level history 30 days retention  | N/A  | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance  | N/A  | Web based dashboard  | N/A  | |
Scalability  | ||||
Replication and Partitioning  | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network  | Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant)  | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication  | |