Managed Database Services · 2026 reliability ranking
Most Reliable Managed Database Services (2026)
We ranked 15 managed database services by real-world reliability over the last 90 days, using 112 status page incidents and our own around-the-clock uptime checks. A managed database holds the customers, orders and accounts behind your website or app, so when it goes down every page and request that touches data fails at once. Even short outages can mean failed checkouts, lost form submissions and support tickets, and a slow or failed restore after an incident can mean lost data. Most small teams run their app on a single hosted database region, which makes the provider's service history a direct measure of their own uptime.
Last updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| # | Vendor | Score | Uptime (90d) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UpstashUpstash is a serverless data platform offering pay-per-request Redis, vector and search databases plus the QStash messaging service. | 98.0 | 100% |
| 2 | Prisma PostgresPrisma Postgres is a managed serverless PostgreSQL service from Prisma, the company behind the Prisma ORM. | 93.3 | 99.96% |
| 3 | PlanetScalePlanetScale is a managed MySQL (Vitess) and Postgres database service based in San Francisco. | 89.1 | 99.92% |
| 4 | NeonNeon is a serverless Postgres service with separated storage and compute, branching and scale-to-zero, owned by Databricks. | 87.6 | 100% |
| 5 | ConvexConvex is a hosted reactive backend that combines a document database with server functions, file storage and scheduling. | 86.7 | 99.87% |
| 6 | DigitalOcean Managed DatabasesDigitalOcean Managed Databases is the hosted PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, MongoDB, Kafka and OpenSearch service from cloud provider DigitalOcean. | 85.7 | 99.93% |
| 7 | Tiger Data (Timescale)Tiger Data, formerly Timescale, runs Tiger Cloud, a managed PostgreSQL service with the TimescaleDB extension for time-series and analytics workloads. | 80.4 | 99.76% |
| 8 | Redis CloudRedis Cloud is the fully managed Redis database service run by Redis Ltd. on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. | 79.2 | 99.72% |
| 9 | Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)Cloud Firestore and Firebase Realtime Database are Google's managed NoSQL databases for web and mobile apps, offered through Firebase. | 71.1 | 99.66% |
| 10 | TursoTurso is a hosted SQLite-compatible database service built on libSQL, aimed at per-tenant and edge databases. | 64.4 | 99.28% |
| 11 | CockroachDB CloudCockroachDB Cloud is the managed service for CockroachDB, a distributed SQL database from Cockroach Labs. | 57.6 | 99.08% |
| 12 | MongoDB AtlasMongoDB Atlas is the managed cloud service for the MongoDB document database, run by MongoDB, Inc. on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. | 49.4 | 97.89% |
| 13 | AivenAiven is a Helsinki-based managed data platform offering hosted PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, Kafka, OpenSearch and other open-source services on several clouds. | 34.6 | 97.43% |
| 14 | SupabaseSupabase is a hosted Postgres platform that bundles a database with authentication, storage, realtime and edge functions. | 27.4 | 94.28% |
Managed Database Services reliability at a glance
- Across the 14 ranked managed database services, average 90-day uptime is 99.06%. Reliability scores range from 98.0 (Upstash) to 27.4 (Supabase).
- Together they published 112 incidents in the last 90 days, 40 of them partial or major outages.
- The typical vendor takes 4h 56m to resolve an incident. Upstash is fastest, at <1m on average.
- Supabase reported the most incidents (51 in 90 days).
What to check before you choose a managed database service
- Check which region your database runs in and read incident history for that region, since most outages are regional rather than global.
- Separate data-plane incidents (connections, queries, timeouts) from control-plane ones (dashboard, project creation, upgrades). The first takes your app down; the second only blocks changes.
- Ask how backups, point-in-time restore and failover replicas work on your plan, and how long a restore takes. Free and entry tiers often run on a single node with no automatic failover.
- Subscribe to the provider's status page and watch for incidents caused by their cloud host (AWS, GCP, Azure), which can hit several providers at once.
90-day uptime history
Each bar is one day. Hover a bar for that day's uptime and incidents.
1. Upstash
100% uptime · 3 incidents · avg resolve <1m2. Prisma Postgres
99.96% uptime · 2 incidents · avg resolve 2h 29m3. PlanetScale
99.92% uptime · 6 incidents · avg resolve 54m4. Neon
100% uptime · 3 incidents · avg resolve —5. Convex
99.87% uptime · 7 incidents · avg resolve 50m6. DigitalOcean Managed Databases
99.93% uptime · 1 incidents · avg resolve 9h 22m7. Tiger Data (Timescale)
99.76% uptime · 7 incidents · avg resolve 2h 9m8. Redis Cloud
99.72% uptime · 3 incidents · avg resolve 4h 56m9. Firebase (Firestore & Realtime Database)
99.66% uptime · 1 incidents · avg resolve 14h 25m10. Turso
99.28% uptime · 3 incidents · avg resolve 7h 57m11. CockroachDB Cloud
99.08% uptime · 5 incidents · avg resolve 10h 59m12. MongoDB Atlas
97.89% uptime · 11 incidents · avg resolve 4h 18m13. Aiven
97.43% uptime · 9 incidents · avg resolve 1d 5h14. Supabase
94.28% uptime · 51 incidents · avg resolve 14h 43m- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Being tracked (not ranked yet)
These vendors join the ranking once we have enough evidence: at least 14 days of data, and for vendors with a quiet status page (silent for a year, or for 90 days while their competitors report several incidents), 30 days of our own independent monitoring.
- Nhost · quiet status page, awaiting our own monitoring
Recent Managed Database Services incidents
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Frequently asked questions
What is the most reliable managed database service?
Based on the last 90 days of data, Upstash is the most reliable managed database service we track, with a reliability score of 98.0/100 and 100% uptime.
How do you measure managed database service reliability?
We poll each vendor's public status page every few minutes, record every incident, and run our own uptime checks against each vendor's login and customer-facing pages. Uptime (40%), incident frequency (20%), average time to resolve (20%) and transparency (20%) combine into one score out of 100.
How often are these rankings updated?
Continuously. Status pages and uptime checks run every five minutes and scores are recalculated several times an hour.
Can vendors pay to rank higher?
No. Sponsored placements are clearly labelled, shown separately from the rankings and never change a vendor's score.