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Deno KV
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Firebase Realtime
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FaunaDB

Performance Comparison

Database query times and total request latency measured from 15 global locations.
Tests run every hour through Cloudflare Workers. Lower numbers indicate better performance.

Location
Deno KVDeno KV
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtime
FaunaDBFaunaDB
DB Query Time
Load
DB Query Time
Load
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1
US flagus-east-1
CA flagca-central-1
BR flagsa-east-1
DE flageu-central-1
GB flageu-west-2
FR flageu-west-3
SE flageu-north-1
IT flageu-south-1
ZA flagaf-south-1
SG flagap-southeast-1
JP flagap-northeast-1
HK flagap-east-1
AU flagap-southeast-2
KR flagap-northeast-2

FAQ

All primary databases are located in us-east-1 region.

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

Feature
Deno KVDeno KV
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtime
FaunaDBFaunaDB

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine
N/A

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

N/A

REST API

JavaScript package for serverless environment

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.
N/A

Cloud functions

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Developer Experience

Database type

N/A

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based
N/A

Document based, NoSQL

Document-relational, NoSQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.
N/A

Firebase CLI

fuana-shell

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication
N/A

JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C

JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,
N/A

JSON

FQL, GraphQL

ACID compliant

ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps
N/A
Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
N/A
Doesn't have support
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP

Backups

N/A
Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user.

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.
N/A
Apart from App indexing

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

HTTPS, TLS

TLS

SSO

N/A
SAML-based SSO solution

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
Document level history 30 days retention

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
N/A

Web based monitoring tools

Web based dashboard

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

N/A

Region groups

Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant)