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Fauna Overview

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What is Fauna?

Fauna is a truly serverless operational database that empowers teams to ship applications faster. It combines the flexibility of a document model with the strong consistency and rich querying power of relational systems—all built on a serverless, distributed architecture that scales automatically, without the complexity of manual provisioning, sharding, or replication. Over 80,000 development teams choose Fauna to build and scale modern transactional applications including teams from Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, Intelliculture, Hannon Hill, Cloaked, DTLR, and Insights.gg.

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Fauna is a global serverless database that rethinks the client-server relationship. With a web-native GraphQL interface that supports custom business logic, a consistent data and compute fabric with modern security, and total freedom from database operations, FaunaDB enables you to simplify code, reduce costs and ship faster.

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Year Founded
2015
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Jeremy H.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Serverless cloud database for the web"
It's managed, serverless, and highly scalable. The ability to write typescript like queries, and have all the reads and updates be globally consist...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"A truly serverless database"
It removes the most painful part (in my opinion) of the relational database, which is the operation. As a developer looking to just develop, it giv...
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Tayler K.
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Tayler K.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"The "best of every world" Database"
When I say "best of every world", it's hard to quantify. But when I talk to people about Fauna and explain it's a globally distributed, fully serve...
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Fauna Demo - Document-Relational Model
Document-relational data model with data stored in JSON documents with full relational joins, schema enforcement, & ACID compliance.
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Fully serverless delivery model accessed via an API. Auto-scaling, replication, routing, and highly available by-default. Eliminate manual database operations including provisioning, sharding, capacity planning, and cluster management. Deploy in multi-tenant environments or fully customizable, si...
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What do you like best about Fauna?

It's very flexible- provides NoSQL functions with the relational query capabilities and native GraphQL. It's also cloud based (serverless) which is so awesome! :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fauna?

The pricing plan for individual developers and small teams is pretty high, but there is a free plan which have good quotas so you can get used to the faunaDB. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves problem with high scalable, relational ultra fast database in cloud with GraphQL option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fauna?

Able to send any data without the need to define the data structure priorhand. Able to store multiple data and query data. Able to manipulate and modify data easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fauna?

Fauna's Shell doesnot allow to export the FQL query output in a usable format like CSV or json. This makes extraction and data export difficult to work with. Need good developer knowledge to script and query data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?

External hosted DB. Fauna helps to save less important data externally like form results, survey results, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fauna?

It is pretty easy to get started on a generous free plan is enough to build a proof of concept solution. It was also straightforward to connect to my database from my app and get the data back. I used it from my C# service as well as the Node.js. The dashboard is intuitive and the extension for VS Code was helpful as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fauna?

One feature that I would love to have is to run some code when changes to the database occur - something like triggers in SQL databases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fauna:

Advise to at least try it out to see how it works. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data storage and API ready to use with built-in authentication and authorization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fauna?

This software provides flexibility, it can be used as a key-values, document-based, or chart-based database.

It is quite intuitive software. It offers multiple integrations, two of them: Github or Netfly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fauna?

FaunaDB is a scalable, reliable and easy to develop software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fauna:

I recommend FaunaDB:

First of all, there is a free tier! perfect for those small projects that need a back end.

Second, there is native support for GraphQL queries and it has some really powerful functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?

FaunaDB has a very good documentation.

It has built-in GraphQL integration and a lambda calculus-based query language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Fauna?

FaunaDB offers immediate access to the data that is hosted on it. It allows to modify data, delete, insert, select and read data in a natural way without limitations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Fauna?

FaunaDB makes it easy to organize and store your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Fauna:

FaunaDB is a database server that offers direct replacement functionality for GraphQ.

Implementation advantages:

High scalability and easy integration.

Real time access.

Combine the simplicity of GraphQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?

FaunaDB supports document, relational, graphic and temporal data sets from a single query. In addition to its own FQL query language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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