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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 |  Supabase |  MongoDB Atlas | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
DB Query Time | Load | DB Query Time | Load | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | |||
| us-east-1 | N/A | |||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | |||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | |||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | |||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | |||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | |||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | |||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | |||
 af-south-1 | N/A | |||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | |||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | |||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | |||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | |||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | |||
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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 |  Supabase |  MongoDB Atlas | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | Deno Edge Function | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Supabase infrastructure | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | supabase | atlas | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL, PostgreSQL | Mongo-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 | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Docker support | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | |
Backups | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | |
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 | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | AES 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2 | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | |
SSO | |||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | By default disabled, can be enabled with pgAudit extension | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | read replicas in early preview | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | |