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Last updated December 20, 2024

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Serverless Database Query Performance

Serverless databases are databases that are hosted on a serverless platform.
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Cold Query
Hot Query
Cold Query
Hot Query
Cold Query
Hot Query
US flagus-west-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
US flagus-east-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
CA flagca-central-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
BR flagsa-east-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
DE flageu-central-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
GB flageu-west-2
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
FR flageu-west-3
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
SE flageu-north-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
IT flageu-south-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
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ZA flagaf-south-1
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N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
SG flagap-southeast-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
JP flagap-northeast-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
HK flagap-east-1
N/AN/A
N/A
N/A
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AU flagap-southeast-2
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KR flagap-northeast-2
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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
EdgeDBEdgeDB
PlanetScalePlanetScale
MongoDB AtlasMongoDB Atlas

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine
N/A

Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

N/A

HTTP Connection, JavaScript and Serverless Drivers

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.
N/A
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API

Developer Experience

Database type

N/A

OLTP

OLTP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

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

pscale

https://github.com/planetscale/cli

atlas

Languages, APIs

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

Any package/driver supporting MySQL or Postgres

Including Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#, and many others

All languages supporting MongoDB driver

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,
N/A

SQL, MySQL variation

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
N/A
ACID compliant
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
N/A
Enterprise customers can opt for PlanetScale Managed, which runs on their own AWS or GCP infrastructure
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB

Backups

N/A

Automated database backups at no extra cost

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.
N/A

Multi-factor authentication

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

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level
N/A

AES Encription, TLS v1.3

Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default

SSO

N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
By default, logs are retained for 7 days. Customizable for enterprise.

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
N/A

Available in the PlanetScale Dashboard, via the API, and the MCP server for monitoring and improving query performance

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

N/A

Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases

By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load