Last updated May 6, 2025



| Location |  Neonread more |  Tursoread more |  Firebase Firestoreread more | |||
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| Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
FAQ
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
| Feature |  Neon |  Turso |  Firebase Firestore | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Postgres, AWS, Azure | N/A | N/A | |
| Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
| API | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | N/A | N/A | |
| Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | N/A | N/A | |
| Developer Experience | ||||
| Database type | OLTP | N/A | N/A | |
| Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | N/A | N/A | |
| CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | neonctl | N/A | N/A | |
| 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 | N/A | N/A | |
| Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,  | SQL, PostgreSQL | N/A | N/A | |
| 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 | N/A | N/A | |
| Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Open source | N/A | N/A | |
| Backups | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | N/A | N/A | |
| Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
| SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | N/A | N/A | ||
| Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | Coming soon | N/A | N/A | |
| Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3 | N/A | N/A | |
| SSO | N/A | N/A | ||
| Monitoring and analytics | ||||
| Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Log export for paid plans | N/A | N/A | |
| Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | N/A | N/A | |
| Scalability | ||||
| Replication and Partitioning | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | N/A | N/A | |