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Timings
Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.
| Location |  DB Query Time Load |  DB Query Time Load |  DB Query Time Load | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | N/A | |||
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 | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite | AWS infrastructure | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API | @aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers runtime | 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 | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Relational, SQL | key-value, NoSQL | Relational, SQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | Cloudflare Workers runtime | AWS CLI tools | pscale | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions | Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++ | Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C# | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | SQL | PartiQL (JSON like syntax) | SQL, MySQL variation | |
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 | Doesn't have support, Only for local development | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | |
Backups | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2 | 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. | Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month) | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | ||||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | N/A | All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 | |
SSO | N/A | |||
Monitoring and analytics | ||||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | N/A | AWS CloudTrail for operation logs | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | N/A | Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network | "Global tables", Multi-region replication | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) | |