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Firebase Realtime
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Cloudflare D1

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
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtime
Deno KVDeno KV
Cloudflare D1Cloudflare D1
DB Query Time
Load
DB Query Time
Load
DB Query Time
Load
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
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtime
Deno KVDeno KV
Cloudflare D1Cloudflare D1

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

N/A

Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

REST API

N/A

Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API

Edge Functions

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

Cloud functions

N/A

Cloudflare Workers runtime

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP, OLAP

N/A

OLTP

Data model

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

Document based, NoSQL

N/A

Relational, SQL

CLI

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

Firebase CLI

N/A

Cloudflare Workers runtime

Languages, APIs

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

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

N/A

TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

JSON

N/A

SQL

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

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support
N/A
Doesn't have support, Only for local development

Backups

N/A
Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

HTTPS, TLS

N/A
N/A

SSO

SAML-based SSO solution
N/A
N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

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

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based monitoring tools

N/A
N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region groups

N/A

Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network