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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 |  |  |  | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | REST API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | TypeScript SDK | |
Edge Functions Support for Edge Functions | Cloud functions | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Document based, NoSQL | Relational | |
CLI | Firebase CLI | atlas | @xata/cli | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | JSON | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | 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 | ACID compliant, document level atomicity. | |||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Requires custom solution via REST API | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 | Apart from App indexing | N/A | ||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | N/A | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | HTTPS, TLS | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | TLS | |
SSO | SAML-based SSO solution | N/A | ||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Document level history 30 days retention | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | N/A | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | Web based monitoring tools | N/A | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Region groups | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | |