Last updated May 6, 2025
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | Neonread more | PlanetScaleread more | DynamoDBread 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 | PlanetScale | DynamoDB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Postgres, AWS, Azure | Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS | AWS infrastructure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | 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 | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | key-value, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | neonctl | pscale https://github.com/planetscale/cli | AWS CLI tools | |
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 | Any package/driver supporting MySQL or Postgres Including Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#, and many others | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, PostgreSQL | SQL, MySQL variation | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | |
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 | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Open source | Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | |
Backups | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | Automated database backups at no extra cost | 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. | |
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 | Coming soon | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3 | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | |
SSO | ||||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Log export for paid plans | By default, logs are retained for 7 days. Customizable for enterprise. | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | |