Last updated December 27, 2024
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Serverless Database Query Performance
Location | FaunaDBread more | PlanetScaleread more | MongoDB Atlasread more | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | Cold Query | Hot Query | |
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 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 | FaunaDB | PlanetScale | MongoDB Atlas | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system | Postgres, MySQL, Vitess, Neki, GCP, AWS | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | JavaScript package for serverless environment | 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. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document-relational, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | fuana-shell | pscale https://github.com/planetscale/cli | atlas | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API | 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, | FQL, GraphQL | 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 | Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database | ACID compliant | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | 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 | Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user. | 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. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-hosted database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | TLS | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | 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 | Document level history 30 days retention | 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 | Web based dashboard | 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 | Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant) | Vitess enables sharded MySQL databases and Neki enables sharded Postgres databases | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | |