Last updated December 20, 2024

Firebase Realtime logo
Firebase Realtime
vs
Deno KV logo
Deno KV
vs
PlanetScale logo
PlanetScale

Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
Location
Firebase RealtimeFirebase Realtimeread moreDeno KVDeno KVread morePlanetScalePlanetScaleread more
Cold Query
Hot Query
Cold Query
Hot Query
Cold Query
Hot Query
US flagus-west-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
US flagus-east-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
CA flagca-central-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
BR flagsa-east-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
DE flageu-central-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
GB flageu-west-2
N/A
N/A
N/A
FR flageu-west-3
N/A
N/A
N/A
SE flageu-north-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
IT flageu-south-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
ZA flagaf-south-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
SG flagap-southeast-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
JP flagap-northeast-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
HK flagap-east-1
N/A
N/A
N/A
AU flagap-southeast-2
N/A
N/A
N/A
KR flagap-northeast-2
N/A
N/A
N/A

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
PlanetScalePlanetScale

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

N/A

Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

REST API

N/A

HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers

Edge Functions

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

Cloud functions

N/A
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

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

pscale

https://github.com/planetscale/cli

Languages, APIs

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

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

N/A

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,

JSON

N/A

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
N/A
ACID compliant

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support
N/A
Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure

Backups

N/A

Automated database backups at no extra cost

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-hosted database for multi-factor authentication
N/A

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

HTTPS, TLS

N/A

AES Encription, TLS v1.3

SSO

SAML-based SSO solution
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
By default, logs are retained for 7 days. Customizable for enterprise.

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based monitoring tools

N/A

Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region groups

N/A

Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases