Comparision of

Supabase vs DynamoDB

Feature
Supabase
DynamoDB
OverviewLearn moreComing soon
GitHub Stars
Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object
AWS infrastructure
Serverless Support
API
Deno Edge Function
@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Supabase infrastructure
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
supabase
AWS CLI tools
Languages, APIs

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

TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React
Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, PostgreSQL
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

Docker support
Doesn't have support, Only for local development
Backups
Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users
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 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2
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

By default disabled, can be enabled with pgAudit extension
AWS CloudTrail for operation logs
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights
Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
read replicas in early preview
"Global tables", Multi-region replication
Last updateFebruary 08, 2024Invalid date
Location
DB Query
Total Download
DB Query
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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
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