Last updated December 20, 2024
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Serverless Database Query Performance
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Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
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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 | PlanetScale | Firebase Realtime | Xata.io | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | REST API | TypeScript SDK | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Cloud functions | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Document based, NoSQL | Relational | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | pscale | Firebase CLI | @xata/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# | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, MySQL variation | JSON | JSON, MongoDB like 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 | |||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | Doesn't have support | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month) | Requires custom solution via REST API | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | Apart from App indexing | 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 | HTTPS, TLS | TLS | |
SSO | SAML-based SSO solution | 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 | Document level history 30 days retention | N/A | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | Web based monitoring tools | N/A | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | Region groups | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | |