The data API for modern applications
Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered to you as a secure, web-native API. Never again worry about database provisioning, maintenance, scaling, sharding, replication, or correctness.
Think data, not database operations
Escape the boundaries imposed by legacy databases and build fearlessly. Fauna is easy to adopt, highly productive to use, and offers the capabilities your business needs, without the operational pain typically inflicted by databases.
A powerful and productive development experience
Fauna is a unique indexed document system that supports relations, documents and graphs for unmatched modeling flexibility. Its query interface features complex joins and custom business logic (ala stored procedures), as well as support for real-time streaming and GraphQL. Furthermore, Fauna is connectionless, and accessible directly from the browser or mobile clients. Simplify code and ship faster with Fauna!
A reliable, no-compromise platform that you can trust
Fauna gives you the data safety, security, and scalability you need to build a new business or modernize existing applications. Featuring a distributed data and compute engine that is strongly consistent, fast, and highly resilient, Fauna is grounded in academic research and Jepsen tested. It never loses your data, lets you start small, and scales globally when you're ready. Upgrade to Fauna and future-proof your business.
Total freedom from database complexity at every stage
Fauna is an API, not a DBaaS or a cluster that you must manage. It is provisioning-free, configuration-free and available instantly as a serverless utility. Once plugged in, it delivers limitless capacity, and throughput so your applications never break under unpredictable loads. Fauna completely eliminates operational overheads such as sharding, capacity planning, data replication, scheduled maintenance etc. This is database nirvana.
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A global data layer for every architecture
Fauna lets you build on the architecture that best suits your business. Be it microservices, single page applications (SPAs), serverless functions, Jamstack or classic three-tier web, Fauna helps you innovate faster.
Predictable global latency
Requests to Fauna are routed automatically to the region closest to the client ensuring low-latency reads and writes so that your app can deliver the snappiest user experience possible.
Failsafe data redundancy
Fauna distributes data globally in a strongly consistent fashion without compromising latency and scale. Committed writes are never lost minimizing the risk of data loss.
Secure by default
Fauna's unique API security model lets you protect applications with modern primitives, easy integrations with 3rd party identity providers and granular attribute-based access control.
Multi-cloud fabric
Cloud-agnostic in its architecture, Fauna operates across leading cloud providers to deliver data close to where your application resides, as well as limit your cloud provider lock-in.
Pay as you scale
With its metered billing model, and a tiered approach to features, Fauna is pain-free to start with. Use as much you need, pay for what you use, and protect against outages under high load.
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