EdgeDBvs
MongoDB Atlasvs
Supabase
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 |  EdgeDB |  MongoDB Atlas |  Supabase | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | |||||
| us-east-1 | N/A | |||||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | |||||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | |||||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | |||||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | |||||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | |||||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | |||||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | |||||
 af-south-1 | N/A | |||||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | |||||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | |||||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | |||||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | |||||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | |||||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature |  EdgeDB |  MongoDB Atlas |  Supabase | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | N/A | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | N/A | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | Deno Edge Function | |
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 | Supabase infrastructure | |
Developer Experience | ||||
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 | supabase | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | N/A | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React | |
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 | Docker support | |
Backups | N/A | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users | |
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 | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | N/A | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | AES 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2 | |
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" | By default disabled, can be enabled with pgAudit extension | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | N/A | Web based monitoring tools | Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | N/A | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | read replicas in early preview | |