Last updated December 27, 2024
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | FaunaDBread more | DynamoDBread more | PlanetScaleread more | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature | FaunaDB | DynamoDB | PlanetScale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system | AWS infrastructure | Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | JavaScript package for serverless environment | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | 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 | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document-relational, NoSQL | key-value, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | fuana-shell | AWS CLI tools | pscale https://github.com/planetscale/cli | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | Any package/driver supporting MySQL or Postgres Including Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#, and many others | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | FQL, GraphQL | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | SQL, MySQL variation | |
ACID compliant ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps | Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database | ACID compliant | ACID compliant | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure | |
Backups | Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user. | 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. | Automated database backups at no extra cost | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-hosted database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | TLS | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | |
SSO | ||||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Document level history 30 days retention | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | By default, logs are retained for 7 days. Customizable for enterprise. | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based dashboard | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant) | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases | |