Knowledge Hub
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | REST API | TypeScript SDK | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloud functions | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Relational | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | Firebase CLI | @xata/cli | atlas | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | JSON | JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL) | Mongo-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, document level atomicity. | |||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support | Doesn't have support | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | |
Backups | Requires custom solution via REST API | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | Apart from App indexing | 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 | HTTPS, TLS | TLS | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | |
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 | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | N/A | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | ||||
Replication and Partitioning | Region groups | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load |