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Last updated July 11, 2023

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
Location
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DB Query Time
E2E Latency
DB Query Time
E2E Latency
DB Query Time
E2E Latency
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

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

N/A
N/A

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

REST API

N/A
N/A

Edge Functions

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

Cloud functions

N/A
N/A

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP, OLAP

N/A
N/A

Data model

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

Document based, NoSQL

N/A
N/A

CLI

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

Firebase CLI

N/A
N/A

Languages, APIs

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

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

N/A
N/A

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

JSON

N/A
N/A

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
N/A

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support
N/A
N/A

Backups

N/A
N/A

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
N/A
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
N/A