Last updated April 17, 2024
MongoDB Atlasvs
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | MongoDB Atlasread more | DynamoDBread more | PlanetScaleread more | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature | MongoDB Atlas | DynamoDB | PlanetScale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | AWS infrastructure | Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | key-value, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | atlas | AWS CLI tools | pscale https://github.com/planetscale/cli | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | 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, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | 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 | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | ACID compliant | ACID compliant | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure | |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off. | Automated database backups at no extra cost | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-hosted database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | |
SSO | ||||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | 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 | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases | |