Last updated May 6, 2025

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
Location
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Cold Query
Hot Query
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US flagus-west-1
N/A
N/A
US flagus-east-1
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CA flagca-central-1
N/A
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BR flagsa-east-1
N/A
N/A
DE flageu-central-1
N/A
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GB flageu-west-2
N/A
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FR flageu-west-3
N/A
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SE flageu-north-1
N/A
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IT flageu-south-1
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ZA flagaf-south-1
N/A
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SG flagap-southeast-1
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JP flagap-northeast-1
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HK flagap-east-1
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AU flagap-southeast-2
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KR flagap-northeast-2
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FAQ

All primary databases are located in us-east-1 region.

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

Feature
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Postgres, AWS, Azure

N/A

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

HTTP and WebSocket connections

@neondatabase/serverless package (optional)
N/A

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
N/A

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

N/A

OLTP

Data model

Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based

Relational, SQL

N/A

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

neonctl

N/A

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

N/A

All languages supporting MongoDB driver

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, PostgreSQL

N/A

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
N/A
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Open source
N/A
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB

Backups

PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans

N/A
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.
N/A

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication
Coming soon
N/A

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3

N/A

Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default

SSO

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

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

N/A

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication

N/A

By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load