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MongoDB Atlas

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

Feature
FaunaDBFaunaDB
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtime
MongoDB AtlasMongoDB Atlas

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

JavaScript package for serverless environment

REST API

HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes

Edge Functions

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

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Cloud functions

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP

Data model

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

Document-relational, NoSQL

Document based, NoSQL

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

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

fuana-shell

Firebase CLI

atlas

Languages, APIs

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

JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API

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

All languages supporting MongoDB driver

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

FQL, GraphQL

JSON

Mongo-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
Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB

Backups

Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user.
Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

TLS

HTTPS, TLS

Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default

SSO

SAML-based SSO solution

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
Document level history 30 days retention
Document level history 30 days retention

Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster"

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
Web based dashboard

Web based monitoring tools

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant)

Region groups

By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load