The best serverless database
Fauna provides developers with a single endpoint to access a strongly consistent, multi-region database that optimally routes requests for low latency, has database replicas for redundancy against regional cloud failures and provides region choice to help meet data residency requirements.
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Arjun Bhatnagar, CEO, Cloaked
Will Kimbell, CTO/Architect, Connexin
A database made for your serverless architectures
Native serverless
Fauna was built with serverless architectures in mind from day one. Our strongly consistent, multi-region distributed database is available through an API call with usage-based pricing - enabling you to focus on building features and not capacity planning, maintaining, and scaling your database.
Multi-region by default
Fauna is a multi-region database by default. It optimally routes requests to the closest region for low-latency, has database replicas across multiple regions for redundancy against regional cloud failures and provides region choice to help meet data residency requirements.
No connection pools
Fauna is accessed through an API call over HTTP and is stateless. You can call Fauna directly from your FaaS functions like AWS Lambda or Cloudflare Workers and not worry about cold starts or connection pools.
Strongly consistent
Fauna was built to ensure data consistency under highly concurrent workloads, a necessity for modern application workloads. Features like Backup and Restore and Attribute-based access control (ABAC) give your teams fine-grain security controls to protect your data.
Comparison of serverless databases
| Fauna | MongdoDB Atlas | DynamoDB | Cockroach serverless | Firebase | PlanetScale | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Connect over HTTP | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
No cold starts | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ |
Multi-region by default | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ |
ACID compliant | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ |
Document-relational model | ✅ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Learn more
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Fauna documentation
Building composable serverless architectures with Fauna, Netlify, and Big Nerd Ranch
Implementing Fauna as infrastructure as code with Serverless Framework
Why Use Fauna with edge computing?
Comparing databases for Vercel and Netlify
Modernization of the database: DynamoDB to Fauna
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