Last updated December 20, 2024

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
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US flagus-west-1
US flagus-east-1
CA flagca-central-1
BR flagsa-east-1
DE flageu-central-1
GB flageu-west-2
FR flageu-west-3
SE flageu-north-1
IT flageu-south-1
ZA flagaf-south-1
SG flagap-southeast-1
JP flagap-northeast-1
HK flagap-east-1
AU flagap-southeast-2
KR flagap-northeast-2

FAQ

All primary databases are located in us-east-1 region.

Serverless Database features

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

Feature
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine
N/A

Postgres, AWS, Azure

Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

N/A

HTTP and WebSocket connections

@neondatabase/serverless package (optional)

JavaScript package for serverless environment

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.
N/A
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Developer Experience

Database type

N/A

OLTP

OLTP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Document-relational, NoSQL

CLI

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

neonctl

fuana-shell

Languages, APIs

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

All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP

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

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,
N/A

SQL, PostgreSQL

FQL, GraphQL

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
Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
N/A
Open source
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP

Backups

N/A

PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans

Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user.

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

AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3

TLS

SSO

N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
Log export for paid plans
Document level history 30 days retention

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
N/A

Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans

Web based dashboard

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

N/A

Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication

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