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Accelerate development velocity with Fauna—the true serverless database that combines document flexibility with relational power, automatic scaling, and zero operational overhead.

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Reduce Total Cost of Ownership

Fauna is built on a truly serverless, distributed architecture that abstracts all operational and scaling overhead.

75%

Lower infrastructure overhead
compared to industry average

Fauna is a ‘fire and forget’ globally distributed database. We’ve tried them all, and only Fauna is truly serverless.

Will Kebbell

CTO
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We built Lexmark Optra Edge on Fauna to help us focus on development instead of administrative tasks. The serverless architecture and flexible data model allowed the Optra team to rapidly build and bring Optra Edge to market.

Jeff Richards

Optra Development Team 
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Serverless Deployment Models

Multi-Tenant
Deployment

Multi-tenant deployments offer instant provisioning, automatic scaling, and auto-replication across three or more regions. High availability, strong consistency, and fault tolerance built-in. 

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Dedicated, 
Customizable Deployment

Fauna’s single-tenant offering, Virtual Private Fauna, can be fully customized to satisfy specific security, control, or geo-distribution requirements, while maintaining the benefits of a fully serverless operational model. 

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Ship Features Faster

Iterate quickly and easily adapt to new access patterns with a document-relational model that combines the flexibility of documents with the powerful querying, schema, and strong consistency of a relational database.

80%

Reduction in code complexity
following DynamoDB migration

3h to 15min

Reduction in regular demo
data ingestion time     

Fauna balances the read times of a NoSQL database with the reduced round trips and data footprints of a relational database. Our core data logic lives in the database layer, reducing complex denormalization logic that used to live in Lambda Functions because of DynamoDB’s querying limitations. As an added bonus, because FQL is basically JavaScript, our front-end devs can easily contribute.

Tayler Kemsley

Senior Software Engineer @ Skylark 
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15+h

Weekly engineering
ops eliminated compared to
MySQL use case


Since Fauna documents do not have to follow a specific schema, we are able to save time and effort -- but we still can leverage Fauna's relational capabilities. It's the best of both worlds.

Artur Tomusiak

Lead Software Engineer
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Fauna is an excellent fit for our use case because it supports the disparate data we’re generating with its document model, but we can still execute sophisticated operations on top of it. The fact that it's fully serverless allows us to focus on our business, and its distributed architecture allows us to keep latency low and helps us deliver a great experience to our customers.

Bhanu Teja Pachipulusu

Co-Founder 
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Scale Smarter

Eliminate the complexity of infrastructure management as you scale. Fauna’s unique multi-active engine ensures strong consistency, low latency, & high availability across availability zones or regions. 

70%

Lower latency following CockroachDB migration

50

transaction round trips to 1
With FQL

Because Fauna is distributed-by-default, we were able to decrease global latency by more than 70% compared to our Cockroach and PostgreSQL instances. Since it’s fully serverless, we were able to achieve these performance improvements with zero engineering overhead.

Steve Lam

CTO
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30-80MS

Global latency

Fauna and Fastly have been instrumental in our ability to test and release features quickly, while enabling us to deliver ultra-low latency because they are both fully distributed and API-driven.

Isis Baulig

CTO
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Enforce Security and Compliance

Fauna’s Zero-Trust security model offers secure, real-time data access with flexible permissions and native database multi-tenancy. Fulfill modern security and data privacy needs without the traditional overhead.

500K +

Databases created

“We needed a database that could support a distributed, multi-tenant architecture with robust ABAC and user controls. We looked at Dynamo and Mongo, but only Fauna delivered it all without extensive engineering.

Arjun Bhatnagar

CEO
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Fauna simplifies data access controls directly on the database, so there’s both added security and minimal engineering required to manage it. Because Fauna exposes these services as flexible APIs; we can easily and quickly integrate those API into any automated deployment tools.

Marcelo Reyna

Head of Infrastructure & Cybersecurity 
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Fully Featured Platform

Native Database Multi-Tenancy

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Dynamic Joins

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Attribute-based Access Control

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Change Data Capture & Event Streaming

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Database Observability

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Schema as 
Code

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Intelligent
Routing

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API
Connectivity

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Distributed Strong Consistency

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Multi-Active Scaling

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Getting started with Fauna

Getting started with Fauna

Build and Scale with Fauna

80,000+

development teams

180

Countries Served

1M+

Databases Created

SaaS apps

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Generative AI

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Retail and eCommerce

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Gaming

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Edge

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IoT

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Agencies

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80,000+

development teams

180

Countries Served

1M+

databases created

Partners and Integrations

Fauna is compatible with cloud infrastructure from AWS, Azure, and GCP and integrated with edge compute functions including Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute@Edge, and AWS Lambda. See our partners page for more integrations with leading third-party providers.

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Get answers and learning materials

Architectural overview document

See why Fauna's strong consistency and replication are important in reducing application bloat and protecting from regional failures.

Workshop

Partner Workshops

Build with Fauna, AWS, Cloudflare and Fastly

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Article

Relational is more than SQL

Bob Muglia, Former CEO of Snowflake

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Documentation

Documentation

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