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Name

Description

Fauna (previously named FaunaDB) provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Website

fauna.com

Technical documentation

docs.fauna.com

Developer

Fauna, Inc.

Initial release

2014

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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Specific characteristics

Serverless database delivered as an API
Web-native security model with attribute based access control
Native GraphQL support with automatic mutations for easy on-ramp, no middleware to install and manage
Expression-rich Fauna Query Language (FQL) with user defined functions that facilitate computations close to data source
Flexible data model that supports relational modeling, documents, and graph access to the same data set
100% ACID, transactional data access with strictly serializable transaction isolation levels
Flexible indexing that supports a variety of use cases
Built-in data temporality, so your queries can point-in-time queries against your data
Add-ons for Jamstack platforms such as Netlify, Vercel etc.
Out-of-box integration with leading security providers such as Auth0, Okta etc
Plugins for modern (web-centric) IDEs such as VSCode
Multi-cloud hosting environment for continuity and cloud provider independence
Integrates easily with modern and legacy programming languages

Competitive advantages

100% serverless, no connection pooling bottlenecks, or cold starts unlike legacy databases and legacy clones
No cold starts, eliminates any latency issues for variable loads
Zero operational overhead, built-in data sharding, replication, and redundancy
Delivered as an API that delivers scales without any configuration/provisioning
Easy to use, browser-native security enables direct invocation from Javascript clients
Jepsen-verified, 100% ACID transactional, with industry-leading transaction isolation levels
Document, relational, search, graph querying on the same dataset, allowing composable queries
Global low latency, based on a ground breaking transactional architecture inspired by research
Multi-cloud backend for continuity and cloud provider independence

Typical application scenarios

Javascript apps
Serverless backends for microservices
Cloud-native apps
B2B and B2C Multi-tenant SaaS
Social apps / mobile apps
Payments and loyalty systems
User account management systems
Ledger-based systems

Key customers

ShiftX

Licensing and pricing models

Usage-based pricing including a free tier

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