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Timings

Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.

Location
Xata.io
DB Query Time
Load
DynamoDB
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1
US flagus-east-1
CA flagca-central-1
BR flagsa-east-1
DE flageu-central-1
GB flageu-west-2
FR flageu-west-3
SE flageu-north-1
IT flageu-south-1
ZA flagaf-south-1
SG flagap-southeast-1
JP flagap-northeast-1
HK flagap-east-1
AU flagap-southeast-2
KR flagap-northeast-2

Serverless Database features

Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.

FeatureXata.ioDynamoDB

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

AWS infrastructure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

TypeScript SDK

@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb, native support for Vercel Edge, Cloudflare Workers

Edge Functions

Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance.

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Runs over HTTPS protocol, compatible with Edge runtimes.Native multi-regional edge support. You can define regions for each table

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP

Data model

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

Relational

key-value, NoSQL

CLI

Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line.

@xata/cli

AWS CLI tools

Languages, APIs

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

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

Supported by majority of languages including Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, C++

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL)

PartiQL (JSON like syntax)

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
Doesn't have support
Doesn't have support, Only for local development

Backups

Requires custom solution via REST API

Point-in-time recovery (PITR) provides continuous backups of your DynamoDB table data. When enabled, DynamoDB maintains incremental backups of your table for the last 35 days until you explicitly turn it off.

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data.
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

TLS

All your data in DynamoDB is encrypted in transit, HTTPS, TLS

SSO

N/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

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

AWS CloudTrail for operation logs

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance
N/A

Amazon CloudWatch to monitor performance metrics

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication

"Global tables", Multi-region replication