They let you choose a region. Here is Xata’s region list: https://xata.io/docs/getting-started/available-regions https://xata.io/docs/getting-started/available

They let you choose a region. Here is Xata’s region list: https://xata.io/docs/getting-started/available-regions https://xata.io/docs/getting-started/available-regions Looks like it’s using AWS Aurora under the hood: https://xata.io/blog/serverless-postgres-platform https://xata.io/blog/serverless-postgres-platform But also, they’ve done some work to reduce the number of network round trips that Postgres needs to respond to a query. For many situations, SQL over HTTPS is used. In JavaScript, the database driver is a wrapper around a fetch request. Xata seems to have its own SDK with higher-level API’s to reduce round trips. Also: https://xata.io/blog/geo-distributed-postgres https://xata.io/blog/geo-distributed-postgres Meanwhile, here’s Neon’s blog post on their connection options: https://neon.tech/blog/http-vs-websockets-for-postgres-queries-at-the-edge https://neon.tech/blog/http-vs-websockets-for-postgres-queri...