Last updated December 20, 2024
DynamoDBvs
PlanetScalevs
Cloudflare D1
Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | DynamoDBread more | PlanetScaleread more | Cloudflare D1read more | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Query | Hot Query | 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 | DynamoDB | PlanetScale | Cloudflare D1 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | AWS infrastructure | Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Cloudflare Workers runtime | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | key-value, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | AWS CLI tools | pscale https://github.com/planetscale/cli | Cloudflare Workers runtime | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | Any package/driver supporting MySQL or Postgres Including Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#, and many others | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | SQL, MySQL variation | SQL | |
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 | ACID compliant | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | |
Backups | Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off. | Automated database backups at no extra cost | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2 | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-hosted database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | 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 | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | By default, logs are retained for 7 days. Customizable for enterprise. | N/A | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance | N/A | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network | |