Last updated December 20, 2024
PlanetScalevs
Neon
Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | PlanetScaleread more | Neonread more | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
FAQ
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature | PlanetScale | Neon | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | Postgres, AWS, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | HTTP and WebSocket connections @neondatabase/serverless package (optional) | |
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, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | pscale | neonctl | |
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# | All languages and ORMs supporting Postgres, Drizzle, Prisma, Node, Go, Java, Rust, PHP | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, MySQL variation | SQL, PostgreSQL | |
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 | Open source | |
Backups | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month) | PITR and Daily backups available for all, scheduled backups available for paid plans | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | |||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | |||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | Coming soon | ||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | AES Encryption at rest, TLS v1.3 | |
SSO | |||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise | Log export for paid plans | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | Web dashboard, export metrics for paid plans | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | Autoscaling Compute and Memory from zero to 16 CPU and Logical Replication | |