Supabase iconSupabase
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MongoDB Atlas iconMongoDB Atlas

Timings

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

Location
Supabase
DB Query Time
Load
MongoDB Atlas
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.

FeatureSupabaseMongoDB Atlas

Infrastructure, Underlying technology

Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine

Supabase infrastructure, PostgreSQL, S3 compatible storage object

MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure

Serverless Support

Serverless and Edge computing support

API

Deno Edge Function

HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes

Edge Functions

Support for Edge Functions
Supabase infrastructure

Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API

Developer Experience

Database type

OLTP

OLTP

Data model

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

Relational, SQL

Document based, NoSQL

CLI

supabase

atlas

Languages, APIs

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

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

All languages supporting MongoDB driver

Query language

Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL,

SQL, PostgreSQL

Mongo-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
ACID compliant, document level atomicity.

Self-hosting

Support for self-hosted Database instance
Docker support
Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB

Backups

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

Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters

Security & Compliance Offerings

SOC2

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

Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default

SSO

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

Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster"

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

By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load