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The truly serverless database that combines the power of a relational database with the flexibility of JSON documents.

Fauna | The Distributed Serverless Database

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Instant provisioning, zero configuration or sharding, & API connectivity

Perform sophisticated queries with native joins, schema enforcement, & ACID transactions across JSON document data

Distributed transaction engine offering strong consistency, auto-replication, & low latency

Develop seamlessly across the schema spectrum with zero-downtime migrations, from flexible to full enforcement

Modern, dynamic security with ABAC & RBAC, native multi-tenancy, & data compliance by-default

API delivery with instant provisioning, zero configuration, & auto-scaling

Customizable serverless deployments tailored to specific isolation, security, hosting, & geo-location requirements

Everything you need to get started with Fauna

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Tutorials

Cleve Stuart

Features

Engineering

Serverless

Tutorial

testing locally

The Developer's Guide to Building with Fauna: From Local Testing to Production

Kirk Kirkconnell 

database clusters

Scaling Reads and Writes without Managing Clusters

Wyatt Wenzel

Bryan Reinero 

News

Company

Event Driven Architecture

event feeds + data export 

Fauna Event Feeds Now GA, Snapshot Export Available in Beta

Paul Paterson

Relational

Database Insights

Dynamic queries

Building Flexible, Dynamic Filters with the Fauna Query Language

Matt Ryan

product recap

Fauna’s 2024 Product Recap

How to Set Up a Continuous Deployment Pipeline for Your Serverless App

Multi-tenancy

Distributed

HA in multi-tenant

How to maintain high availability in a multi-tenant SaaS app

Matt Henderson

serverless blog 

Fauna: The Truly Serverless Database

Cloudflare

cf works #3

How Fauna and Cloudflare Make Serverless Development Faster & More Scalable

Schema

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Announcing General Availability of Fauna Schema

CDC blog

Fauna adds support for Change Data Capture

Comparison

mongo

Overcoming MongoDB Limitations with Fauna

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Tyson Trautmann

Why You Should Apply Continuous Delivery to Database Schema

DynamoDB

dynamodb

Five DynamoDB limitations you should know before using it

Steven Foster

Amazon Web Services

AWS marketplace

Fauna Launches Pay-As-You-Go Listing on AWS Marketplace

Use Case

Case Study

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Lexmark’s Optra Edge platform processes 2M daily IoT messages using Fauna  

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Introducing Fauna's Datadog Integration: Seamless Observability for Your Database

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Shadid Haque

DevOps

Cloud

Enhancing event-driven architecture with Temporal and Fauna

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MongoDB Data API and HTTPS Endpoints Deprecation: Exploring Your Options

Serverless 

Introduction to serverless databases

Skylark 

How Skylark Unlocked Differentiated Feature Development with Fauna

Edge applications

Fauna + CF Workers

Announcing Fauna’s Native Integration with Cloudflare Workers 

Marcelo Reyna

Differential blog

Fauna and Differential Partnership: Revolutionizing Database Management for Modern Applications

Brecht De Rooms

Postgres

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Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna Part 3

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Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna Part 2

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Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna Part 1

Security

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Exploring Multi-Tenancy Options in Fauna

Document

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Managing Schema in Document and Relational Databases

Authorization

Authentication

security guide 

Guide to Database Security Strategies, Policies, and Postures

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Decoding Fauna: ABAC vs. RBAC Explained 

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Announcing Fauna Schema: Build, Iterate, and Evolve Schema with Zero Downtime 

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Flexibility Meets Structure: Evolving Document Database Schemas with Fauna 

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Introducing Fauna's New Event Streaming

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Matt Freels

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Introducing Zero-Downtime Migrations to Fauna Schema 

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Introducing Types and Enforcement to Fauna Schema 

GCP marketplace

Fauna Joins Google Cloud Marketplace

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Database Joins for NoSQL

Datadog

DataDog EventBridge

Gather insights from Fauna Logs with Datadog, AWS EventBridge, and AWS Lambda

Computed Fields + Check Constraints 

Elevating Schema as Code: Fauna Introduces Computed Fields and Check Constraints

Fauna Serverless Framework 

Fauna Serverless REST

Building a Serverless REST API with Fauna, AWS, and TypeScript

Distributed Database

Fauna Distributed 

What is a distributed database and when should you use one

Artificial Intelligence

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Power Your Development with AI: Introducing Fauna’s AI Assistant

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Introducing Schema as Code capabilities with new DevOps tooling and integrations

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Supercharge your DevOps workflow with Fauna Schema Language and GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD

Zee Khoo

Sathya Balakrishnan 

Data Consistency

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Build a Serverless multi-tenant SaaS app with AWS and Fauna

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How Connexin delivers world-class broadband and smart city services with Fauna and Cloudflare

Fauna Cloudflare

Build a global, serverless REST API with Cloudflare and Fauna

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Bob Muglia

Relational is more than SQL

Relational is More than SQL

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SiteGPT: Delivering a globally distributed generative AI application with Fauna, Cloudflare, and Pinecone

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Why Fauna: The limitations of alternative databases and the Fauna advantage 

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Why Fauna: Use cases unlocked with Fauna

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Beyond SQL: A relational database for modern applications

Nicole Nearhood

Launch announcement Aug 2023

Fauna's new database language and seamless developer experience

Luis Colon

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Inside Fauna’s distributed transaction engine

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How to choose the right metadata store for applications at scale

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Supporting Insights.gg’s 100K global daily active users with Fauna, Cloudflare Workers, and Fly.io

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Hassen Karaa

Fauna: A modern system of record for your generative AI application