Supabase iconSupabase
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Firebase Realtime Database iconFirebase Realtime Database

Timings

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

Location
Supabase
DB Query Time
Load
Firebase Realtime Database
DB Query Time
Load
US flagus-west-1N/A
US flagus-east-1N/A
CA flagca-central-1N/A
BR flagsa-east-1N/A
DE flageu-central-1N/A
GB flageu-west-2N/A
FR flageu-west-3N/A
SE flageu-north-1N/A
IT flageu-south-1N/A
ZA flagaf-south-1N/A
SG flagap-southeast-1N/A
JP flagap-northeast-1N/A
HK flagap-east-1N/A
AU flagap-southeast-2N/A
KR flagap-northeast-2N/A

Serverless Database features

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

FeatureSupabaseFirebase Realtime Database

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object

Nodejs, Google Cloud, Scala

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

Deno Edge Function

REST API

Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions
Supabase infrastructure

Cloud functions

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

OLTP, OLAP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

supabase

Firebase CLI

Languages, APIs

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

TypeScript, JavaScript, supabase-js SDK, Flutter, React Native, React

JavaScript, Swift, Kotlin, Java, C++, Objective-C

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, PostgreSQL

JSON

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
Docker support
Doesn't have support

Backups

Daily basis (Included in Free tier), PITR for paid users

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

Apart from App indexing

Multi-factor authentication

Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication

Encryption

Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level

AES 256 Encryption, TLS v1.2

HTTPS, TLS

SSO

SAML-based SSO solution

Monitoring and analytics

Log retention

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

By default disabled, can be enabled with pgAudit extension

Document level history 30 days retention

Statistics

Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance

Web dashboard, provides Prometheus-compatible metrics endpoints to gather health insights

Web based monitoring tools

Scalability

Replication and Partitioning

read replicas in early preview

Region groups