Comparision of
Firebase Realtime Database vs Cloudflare D1
| Overview | Learn more | Coming soon |
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite |
| Serverless Support | ||
|---|---|---|
API | REST API | Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API |
Edge Functions Support for Edge Functions | Cloud functions | Cloudflare Workers runtime |
| Developer Experience | ||
Database type | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Relational, SQL |
CLI | Firebase CLI | Cloudflare Workers runtime |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | JSON | SQL |
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 | Doesn't have support | Doesn't have support, Only for local development |
Backups | Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2 | |
| Security & Compliance Offerings | ||
SOC2 | Apart from App indexing | |
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | ||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | HTTPS, TLS | N/A |
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 | N/A |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | N/A |
| Scalability | ||
Replication and Partitioning | Region groups | Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network |
| Last update | July 11, 2023 | Invalid date |
us-west-1 | ||
us-east-1 | ||
ca-central-1 | ||
sa-east-1 | ||
eu-central-1 | ||
eu-west-2 | ||
eu-west-3 | ||
eu-north-1 | ||
eu-south-1 | ||
af-south-1 | ||
ap-southeast-1 | ||
ap-northeast-1 | ||
ap-east-1 | ||
ap-southeast-2 | ||
ap-northeast-2 | ||
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