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 |  MongoDB Atlas |  PlanetScale | |
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine  | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite  | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure  | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS  | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support  | ||||
API  | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API  | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes  | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver  | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.  | Cloudflare Workers runtime  | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API  | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions  | |
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Database type  | OLTP  | OLTP  | OLTP  | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based  | Relational, SQL  | Document based, NoSQL  | Relational, SQL  | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.  | Cloudflare Workers runtime  | atlas  | pscale  | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication   | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions  | All languages supporting MongoDB driver  | Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#  | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,   | SQL  | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL)  | SQL, MySQL variation  | |
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  | ACID compliant, document level atomicity.   | ACID compliant  | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance  | Doesn't have support, Only for local development  | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB  | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP  | |
Backups  | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2  | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters  | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)  | |
Security & Compliance Offerings  | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.  | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication  | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level  | N/A  | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default  | AES Encription, TLS v1.3  | |
SSO  | N/A  | |||
Monitoring and analytics  | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes  | N/A  | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster"  | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise  | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance  | N/A  | Web based monitoring tools  | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio  | |
Scalability  | ||||
Replication and Partitioning  | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network  | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load  | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)  | |