Last updated March 31, 2025

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
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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
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Bare metal servers, Unikernel virtualization, PostgreSQL

Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

N/A

JavaScript package for serverless environment

TypeScript SDK

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.
N/A

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

OLTP

OLTP, OLAP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Document-relational, NoSQL

Relational

CLI

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

prisma

fuana-shell

@xata/cli

Languages, APIs

The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication

TypeScript, JavaScript

JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, PostgreSQL

FQL, GraphQL

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
N/A
Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
N/A
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support

Backups

N/A
Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user.

Requires custom solution via REST API

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.
GDPR, SOC2, ISO:27001, HIPAA
N/A

Multi-factor authentication

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

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level
N/A

TLS

TLS

SSO

N/A
N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
Document level history 30 days retention
N/A

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web dashboard

Web based dashboard
N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

N/A

Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant)

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication