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Performance Comparison

Database query times and total request latency measured from 15 global locations.
Tests run every hour through Cloudflare Workers. Lower numbers indicate better performance.

Location
PlanetScalePlanetScale
EdgeDBEdgeDB
DB Query Time
Load
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1
US flagus-east-1
CA flagca-central-1
BR flagsa-east-1
DE flageu-central-1
GB flageu-west-2
FR flageu-west-3
SE flageu-north-1
IT flageu-south-1
ZA flagaf-south-1
SG flagap-southeast-1
JP flagap-northeast-1
HK flagap-east-1
AU flagap-southeast-2
KR flagap-northeast-2

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
PlanetScalePlanetScale
EdgeDBEdgeDB

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS

N/A

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver

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

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

N/A

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

N/A

CLI

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

pscale

N/A

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#

N/A

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, MySQL variation

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

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
N/A

Backups

Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)

N/A

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
N/A

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

AES Encription, TLS v1.3

N/A

SSO

N/A

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

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based dashboard, read/write ratio

N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)

N/A