Comparision of

DynamoDB vs Xata.io

Feature
DynamoDB
Xata.io
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

AWS infrastructure
PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch
Serverless Support
API
@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers
TypeScript SDK
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

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

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

key-value, NoSQL
Relational
CLI
AWS CLI tools
@xata/cli
Languages, APIs

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

Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++
JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

PartiQL (JSON like syntax)
JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL)
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, Only for local development
Doesn't have support
Backups
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.
Requires custom solution via REST API
Security & Compliance Offerings
SOC2
N/A
Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication

N/A
Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS
TLS
SSO
N/A
Monitoring and analytics
Log retention

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

AWS CloudTrail for operation logs
N/A
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics
N/A
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
"Global tables", Multi-region replication
Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication
Last updateInvalid dateNovember 26, 2022
Location
DB Query
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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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