Comparision of

PlanetScale vs DynamoDB

Feature
PlanetScale
DynamoDB
OverviewLearn moreComing soon
Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS
AWS infrastructure
Serverless Support
API
uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver
@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions
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
pscale
AWS CLI tools
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#
Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, MySQL variation
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

Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support, Only for local development
Backups
Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)
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

AES Encription, TLS v1.3
All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS
SSO
Monitoring and analytics
Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes

Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise
AWS CloudTrail for operation logs
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based dashboard, read/write ratio
Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)
"Global tables", Multi-region replication
Last updateNovember 25, 2022Invalid date
Location
DB Query
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DB Query
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us-west-1
us-east-1
ca-central-1
sa-east-1
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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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