Comparision of

Cloudflare D1 vs DynamoDB

Feature
Cloudflare D1
DynamoDB
OverviewComing soonComing soon
Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite
AWS infrastructure
Serverless Support
API
Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API
@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Cloudflare Workers runtime
Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table
Developer Experience
Database type
OLTP
OLTP
Data model

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

Relational, SQL
key-value, NoSQL
CLI
Cloudflare Workers runtime
AWS CLI tools
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++
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL
PartiQL (JSON like syntax)
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
Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance

Doesn't have support, Only for local development
Doesn't have support, Only for local development
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.
Security & Compliance Offerings
SOC2
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
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
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

N/A
Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network
"Global tables", Multi-region replication
Last updateInvalid dateInvalid date
Location
DB Query
Total Download
DB Query
Total Download
us-west-1
us-east-1
ca-central-1
sa-east-1
Flag of Germanyeu-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
Last check

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