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 |  PlanetScale |  MongoDB Atlas | |
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| Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | |
| Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
| API | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | |
| 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 | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | |
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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 | Relational, SQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
| CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | Cloudflare Workers runtime | pscale | atlas | |
| 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# | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | |
| Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,  | SQL | SQL, MySQL variation | Mongo-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 | ACID compliant | ACID compliant, document level atomicity.  | |
| Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | |
| 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) | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | |
| 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 | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | |
| 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 | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | |
| Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | N/A | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | Web based monitoring tools | |
| Scalability | ||||
| Replication and Partitioning | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | |