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Deno KV icon
Deno KV
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Firebase Realtime icon
Firebase Realtime
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Xata.io icon
Xata.io

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
Xata.ioXata.io
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
Xata.ioXata.io

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine
N/A

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

N/A

REST API

TypeScript SDK

Edge Functions

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

Cloud functions

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Developer Experience

Database type

N/A

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP, OLAP

Data model

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

Document based, NoSQL

Relational

CLI

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

Firebase CLI

@xata/cli

Languages, APIs

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

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

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

Query language

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

JSON

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
N/A

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
N/A
Doesn't have support
Doesn't have support

Backups

N/A

Requires custom solution via REST API

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
N/A
N/A

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level
N/A

HTTPS, TLS

TLS

SSO

N/A
SAML-based SSO solution
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 monitoring tools

N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

N/A

Region groups

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication