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Timings
Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.
Location |  Cloudflare D1 |  PlanetScale | ||
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DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | |
 us-west-1 | ||||
| us-east-1 | ||||
 ca-central-1 | ||||
 sa-east-1 | ||||
 eu-central-1 | ||||
 eu-west-2 | ||||
 eu-west-3 | ||||
 eu-north-1 | ||||
 eu-south-1 | ||||
 af-south-1 | ||||
 ap-southeast-1 | ||||
 ap-northeast-1 | ||||
 ap-east-1 | ||||
 ap-southeast-2 | ||||
 ap-northeast-2 | ||||
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Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature |  Cloudflare D1 |  PlanetScale | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | |
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 | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | Cloudflare Workers runtime | pscale | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions | Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C# | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL | 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 | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | |
Backups | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2 | 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 | 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 | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | N/A | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | |