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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 Realtime |  Upstash Redis | ||
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DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | |
 us-west-1 | ||||
| us-east-1 | ||||
 ca-central-1 | ||||
 sa-east-1 | ||||
 eu-central-1 | ||||
 eu-west-2 | ||||
 eu-west-3 | ||||
 eu-north-1 | ||||
 eu-south-1 | ||||
 af-south-1 | ||||
 ap-southeast-1 | ||||
 ap-northeast-1 | ||||
 ap-east-1 | ||||
 ap-southeast-2 | ||||
 ap-northeast-2 | ||||
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Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature |  Firebase Realtime |  Upstash Redis | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | N/A | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | REST API | N/A | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloud functions | N/A | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP, OLAP | N/A | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | 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 | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | N/A | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | JSON | 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 | ||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support | N/A | |
Backups | N/A | ||
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 | |
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 | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | N/A | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | Region groups | N/A | |