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Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
| Feature |  |  | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | REST API | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Cloud functions | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Document based, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | atlas | Firebase CLI | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | JSON | |
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 | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | 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 | ||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | HTTPS, TLS | |
SSO | SAML-based SSO solution | ||
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | Document level history 30 days retention | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | Web based monitoring tools | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Region groups | |