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 |  EdgeDB |  MongoDB Atlas |  Neon | |
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| Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | N/A | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | Postgres, AWS, Azure | |
| Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
| API | N/A | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | |
| Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | N/A | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | |
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| Database type | N/A | OLTP | OLTP | |
| Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | N/A | Document based, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | |
| CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | N/A | atlas | neonctl | |
| Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication  | N/A | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP | |
| Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,  | N/A | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | 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 | N/A | ACID compliant, document level atomicity.  | ACID compliant | |
| Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | N/A | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Open source | |
| Backups | N/A | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | 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. | N/A | |||
| Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | N/A | Coming soon | ||
| Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | N/A | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | AES Encryption at rest, 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 | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | Log export for paid plans | |
| Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | N/A | Web based monitoring tools | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | |
| Scalability | ||||
| Replication and Partitioning | N/A | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | |