Last updated May 6, 2025
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | Neonread more | DynamoDBread more | MongoDB Atlasread more | |||
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Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||||
 ap-northeast-2 | 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 | Neon | DynamoDB | MongoDB Atlas | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Postgres, AWS, Azure | AWS infrastructure | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | key-value, NoSQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | neonctl | AWS CLI tools | atlas | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, PostgreSQL | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | Mongo-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 | ACID compliant | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Open source | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | |
Backups | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | 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. | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | Coming soon | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3 | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | |
SSO | ||||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Log export for paid plans | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | |