Last updated December 20, 2024
DynamoDBvs
Neon
Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | DynamoDBread more | Neonread more | ||
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Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 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 | ||||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature | DynamoDB | Neon | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | AWS infrastructure | Postgres, AWS, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table | 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 | key-value, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | AWS CLI tools | neonctl | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | SQL, PostgreSQL | |
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 | Open source | |
Backups | Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off. | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | |
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 | Coming soon | ||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3 | |
SSO | |||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | Log export for paid plans | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | |