PlanetScalevs
Cloudflare D1vs
Firebase Realtime
Timings
Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.
Location |  PlanetScale |  Cloudflare D1 |  Firebase Realtime | |||
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DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | |
 us-west-1 | ||||||
| us-east-1 | ||||||
 ca-central-1 | ||||||
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 eu-west-2 | ||||||
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 eu-north-1 | ||||||
 eu-south-1 | ||||||
 af-south-1 | ||||||
 ap-southeast-1 | ||||||
 ap-northeast-1 | ||||||
 ap-east-1 | ||||||
 ap-southeast-2 | ||||||
 ap-northeast-2 | ||||||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature |  PlanetScale |  Cloudflare D1 |  Firebase Realtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API | REST API | |
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 runtime | Cloud functions | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | pscale | Cloudflare Workers runtime | Firebase CLI | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C# | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, MySQL variation | SQL | JSON | |
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 | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month) | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2 | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | Apart from App indexing | |||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | N/A | HTTPS, TLS | |
SSO | N/A | SAML-based SSO solution | ||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise | N/A | Document level history 30 days retention | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | N/A | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network | Region groups | |