Firebase Realtime Databasevs
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Timings
Time to First Byte (TTFB) and Load time across different locations. Lower is better.
| Location |  DB Query Time Load |  DB Query Time Load | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 us-west-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
| us-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ca-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 sa-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-central-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-west-3 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-north-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 eu-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 af-south-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-east-1 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-southeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
 ap-northeast-2 | N/A | N/A | ||
Serverless Database features
Compare the features of the Serverless Database to help you choose the right one for your needs.
| Feature | | | |
|---|---|---|---|
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala | PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, ElasticSearch | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | |||
API | REST API | TypeScript SDK | |
Edge Functions Support for Edge Functions | Cloud functions | Edge Caching, support for Edge environments | |
Developer Experience | |||
Database type | OLTP, OLAP | OLTP, OLAP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Relational | |
CLI | Firebase CLI | @xata/cli | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C | JavaScript, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, REST API | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | JSON | 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 | |||
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Doesn't have support | Doesn't have support | |
Backups | Requires custom solution via REST API | ||
Security & Compliance Offerings | |||
SOC2 | Apart from App indexing | 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 | HTTPS, TLS | TLS | |
SSO | SAML-based SSO solution | N/A | |
Monitoring and analytics | |||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Document level history 30 days retention | N/A | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | N/A | |
Scalability | |||
Replication and Partitioning | Region groups | Region Groups, group replication, PostgreSQL logical replication | |