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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 |  MongoDB Atlas |  Supabase |  Xata.io | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | Deno Edge Function | TypeScript SDK | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Supabase infrastructure | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | Relational | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | atlas | supabase | @xata/cli | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | SQL, PostgreSQL | JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL) | |
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 | ||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Docker support | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users | Requires custom solution via REST API | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | 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 | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | AES 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2 | TLS | |
SSO | N/A | |||
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" | By default disabled, can be enabled with pgAudit extension | N/A | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights | N/A | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | read replicas in early preview | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | |