PlanetScale iconPlanetScale
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Xata.io iconXata.io

Timings

Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.

Location
PlanetScale
DB Query Time
Load
Xata.io
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1N/AN/A
US flagus-east-1N/AN/A
CA flagca-central-1N/AN/A
BR flagsa-east-1N/AN/A
DE flageu-central-1N/AN/A
GB flageu-west-2N/AN/A
FR flageu-west-3N/AN/A
SE flageu-north-1N/AN/A
IT flageu-south-1N/AN/A
ZA flagaf-south-1N/AN/A
SG flagap-southeast-1N/AN/A
JP flagap-northeast-1N/AN/A
HK flagap-east-1N/AN/A
AU flagap-southeast-2N/AN/A
KR flagap-northeast-2N/AN/A

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

FeaturePlanetScaleXata.io

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver

TypeScript SDK

Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

OLTP, OLAP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Relational

CLI

pscale

@xata/cli

Languages, APIs

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

Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, MySQL variation

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

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support

Backups

Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)

Requires custom solution via REST API

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

AES Encription, TLS v1.3

TLS

SSO

N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise
N/A

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based dashboard, read/write ratio

N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication