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Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

FeatureFirebase Realtime DatabaseCloudflare D1

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

REST API

Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.

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

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

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

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.
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