Last updated May 6, 2025
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | Neonread more | Supabaseread more | ||
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Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 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 | Neon | Supabase | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Postgres, AWS, Azure | Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | Deno Edge Function | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Supabase infrastructure | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | neonctl | supabase | |
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 | TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, PostgreSQL | SQL, PostgreSQL | |
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 | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Open source | Docker support | |
Backups | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users | |
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 | AES 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2 | |
SSO | |||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Log export for paid plans | Based on plan | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | read replicas in early preview | |