Comparision of
MongoDB Atlas vs PlanetScale
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | MongoDB multi-tenant infrastructure, AWS, GCP, Azure | MySQL, Vitess, GCP, AWS |
| Serverless Support | ||
|---|---|---|
API | HTTPS Rest API support to run queries in Edge runtimes | uses HTTP connection, JavaScript Driver |
Edge Functions Support for Edge Functions | Supported by any Edge Environment with fetch API | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions |
| Developer Experience | ||
Database type | OLTP | OLTP |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document based, NoSQL | Relational, SQL |
CLI | atlas | pscale |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | All languages supporting MongoDB driver | Any package/driver supporting MySQL, Prisma, Node.js, Go, Django, C# |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | Mongo-Query-Language (MQL) | SQL, MySQL variation |
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, document level atomicity. | ACID compliant |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Atlas managed service has advantages over self-hosted MongoDB | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP |
Backups | Atlas ensures continuous cloud backup of replica sets and consistent, cluster-wide snapshots of sharded clusters | Daily bases (Included in Free tier), Scheduled backups ($0.023 per GB per month) |
| 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 | Atlas encrypts all cluster storage and snapshot volumes at rest by default | AES Encription, TLS v1.3 |
SSO | ||
| Monitoring and analytics | ||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Atlas retains the last 30 days of log messages and system event audit messages for each tier in a cluster" | Based on plan, Unlimited for Enterprise |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based monitoring tools | Web based dashboard, read/write ratio |
| Scalability | ||
Replication and Partitioning | By default run on replicaset, can automatically scale based on load | Database can be deployed on AWS, GCP supported regions (GDPR compliant) |
| Last update | Invalid date | November 25, 2022 |
us-west-1 | ||
us-east-1 | ||
ca-central-1 | ||
sa-east-1 | ||
eu-central-1 | ||
eu-west-2 | ||
eu-west-3 | ||
eu-north-1 | ||
eu-south-1 | ||
af-south-1 | ||
ap-southeast-1 | ||
ap-northeast-1 | ||
ap-east-1 | ||
ap-southeast-2 | ||
ap-northeast-2 | ||
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