Comparision of

PlanetScale vs Xata.io

Feature
PlanetScale
Xata.io
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS
PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch
Serverless Support
API
uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver
TypeScript SDK
Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions
Edge Caching, support for Edge environments
Developer Experience
Database type
OLTP
OLTP, OLAP
Data model

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

Relational, SQL
Relational
CLI
pscale
@xata/cli
Languages, APIs

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

Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#
JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API
Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, MySQL variation
JSON, MongoDB like 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
Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance

Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support
Backups
Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)
Requires custom solution via REST API
Security & Compliance Offerings
SOC2
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

AES Encription, TLS v1.3
TLS
SSO
N/A
Monitoring and analytics
Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes

Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise
N/A
Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web based dashboard, read/write ratio
N/A
Scalability
Replication and Partitioning
Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)
Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication
Last updateNovember 25, 2022November 26, 2022
Location
DB Query
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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