Knowledge Hub
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
Feature | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||||
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | TypeScript SDK | 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 | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | Cloud functions | |
Developer Experience | ||||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP, OLAP | |
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. | atlas | @xata/cli | Firebase CLI | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | JSON, MongoDB like 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 | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Requires custom solution via REST API | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | N/A | Apart from App indexing | ||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | N/A | |||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | TLS | HTTPS, TLS | |
SSO | N/A | 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" | N/A | Document level history 30 days retention | |
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 | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | Region groups |