Comparision of

MongoDB Atlas vs PlanetScale

Feature
MongoDB Atlas
PlanetScale
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure
MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS
Serverless Support
API
HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes
uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API
Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions
Developer Experience
Database type
OLTP
OLTP
Data model

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

Document based, NoSQL
Relational, SQL
CLI
atlas
pscale
Languages, APIs

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

All languages supporting MongoDB driver
Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

Mongo-Query-Language (MQL)
SQL, MySQL variation
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.
ACID compliant
Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance

Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Backups
Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters
Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)
Security & Compliance Offerings
SOC2
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
AES Encription, TLS v1.3
SSO
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"
Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based monitoring tools
Web based dashboard, read/write ratio
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load
Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)
Last updateInvalid dateNovember 25, 2022
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Total Download
DB Query
Total Download
us-west-1
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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