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Xata.io
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PlanetScale
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Cloudflare D1

Timings

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

Location
Xata.io
DB Query Time
Load
PlanetScale
DB Query Time
Load
Cloudflare D1
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1N/AN/A
US flagus-east-1N/AN/A
CA flagca-central-1N/AN/A
BR flagsa-east-1N/AN/A
DE flageu-central-1N/AN/A
GB flageu-west-2N/AN/A
FR flageu-west-3N/AN/A
SE flageu-north-1N/AN/A
IT flageu-south-1N/AN/A
ZA flagaf-south-1N/AN/A
SG flagap-southeast-1N/AN/A
JP flagap-northeast-1N/AN/A
HK flagap-east-1N/AN/A
AU flagap-southeast-2N/AN/A
KR flagap-northeast-2N/AN/A

Serverless Database features

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

FeatureXata.ioPlanetScaleCloudflare D1

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch

MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS

Cloudflare infrastructure, SQLite

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

TypeScript SDK

uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver

Cloudflare Workers runtime API interfaces, D1 Client API

Edge Functions

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

Edge Caching, support for Edge environments

Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions

Cloudflare Workers runtime

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP, OLAP

OLTP

OLTP

Data model

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

Relational

Relational, SQL

Relational, SQL

CLI

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

@xata/cli

pscale

Cloudflare Workers runtime

Languages, APIs

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

JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API

Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C#

TypeScript, JavaScript inside Cloudflare worker functions

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

JSON, MongoDB like query language (MQL)

SQL, MySQL variation

SQL

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
ACID compliant

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Doesn't have support
Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP
Doesn't have support, Only for local development

Backups

Requires custom solution via REST API

Daily basis (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month)

Backups run every hour automatically. Stores backups of your database in R2

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

AES Encription, TLS v1.3

N/A

SSO

N/AN/A

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes
N/A
Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise
N/A

Statistics

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

Web based dashboard, read/write ratio

N/A

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication

Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant)

Distributed across Cloudflare Edge network