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Generative AI

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

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Fauna combines the flexibility of NoSQL with the relational querying capabilities and ACID consistency of SQL systems — with native GraphQL and delivered as a cloud API so you don’t have to worry about operations. 

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Fauna | The distributed serverless database

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Everything you love about relational databases with the flexibility of documents

Use your preferred language driver or GraphQL

 Import from your CLI with support to define data types

Develop offline and automate testing and deployment

Multi-tenant platform providing strong consistency and low latency

The flexibility of JSON with the querying power of a RDBMS

Execute complex business logic as ACID transactions

Access your data anywhere via a single cloud endpoint

Works with the cloud infrastructure and services you use

Ensure your data is protected and meets residency requirements 

Accelerate development and smoothly transition projects

 Launch or scale personalized experiences

Start fast, iterate quickly on features and player profiles

Interact without connections, directly and securely over HTTPS

Low latency applications for a distributed user base 

Modernize your frontend and add functionality

Fauna offers better global data distribution with less complexity and cost

Fauna offers multi-region and strongly consistent data by default

Fauna offers relational modeling power with globally distributed data integrity

Fauna offers distributed transactions without managing capacity, caches, or connections

Everything you need to get started with Fauna

Examples and sample code from our API libraries

Guides to help you onboard and accelerate with Fauna

Learn about product updates, partners, and more

White paper: How to build performant, globally distributed applications

White paper: Understand what's under the hood

View the latest from our developer community

Ask the community for help and see what others have said

Discover our mission and meet our leadership

Join our talented, passionate, and committed team

Read news, announcements, and press coverage

Discover the technology platforms partenered with Fauna

See the tools and integrations available for Fauna

📙 The architect's guide to building scalable global applications |

Tutorials

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Shadid Haque

Tutorial

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Building AI applications with OpenAI, Pinecone, Langchain and Fauna

Cloud

Data Consistency

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Achieving low latencies and low emissions at the edge for Climatiq’s carbon calculation API 

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Evan Weaver

Features

Amazon Web Services

Comparison

Fauna vs DynamoDB

Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB

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How Hannon Hill’s personalization application supports up to 4.6M daily transactions with Fauna and AWS

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Matt Freels

Nicole Nearhood

News

Company

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Introducing FQL X: The future of Fauna’s database language

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Serverless 

Introduction to serverless databases

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Transfer data in Fauna to your analytics tool using Airbyte

Interview Mike Rispoli

A CTO reveals their preferred serverless stack for 2023

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How to get database insights with Fauna Logs and the Elastic (ELK) Stack

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Get visibility into the cost and performance of queries with Fauna Logs

Luis Colon

DynamoDB

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Considerations when migrating from DynamoDB to Fauna

Pain points with DynamoDB

DynamoDB pain points: How to address them and exploring possible alternatives

Brecht De Rooms

Postgres

Migrating from Postgres to Serverless with Fauna

Modernizing from PostgreSQL to Serverless with Fauna Part 1

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Side-by-side comparison of serverless databases

Wyatt Wenzel

Vercel

Netlify

Cloudflare

Edge applications

Global app ecosystem

Fauna's global application partner ecosystem

Node.js

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How to build microservices with Node.js

Shashank Golla

Distributed

Intelligent Routing Launch

Build low-latency global apps that meet data residency requirements

Richard Flosi

Fauna + BNR + Netlify

Building composable serverless architectures with Fauna, Netlify, and Big Nerd Ranch

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Delivering personalized content with Netlify’s Next.js Advanced Middleware and Fauna

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Implementing Fauna as infrastructure as code with Serverless Framework

Roy Derks 

Fauna + StepZen

Compose Data From Fauna and GitHub using GraphQL and StepZen

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Fauna and generous.studio: Scalable setup through serverless and document-relational features

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Achieving multi-region reliability with AWS Step Functions and Fauna

Fauna + Django

How to use Fauna with Django

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Comparing Fauna and MongoDB

GraphQL

Fauna + Cloudflare

Building an edge serverless GraphQL backend with Cloudflare Workers and Fauna

Case study: Cloaked

Fauna and Cloaked: A multi-region database solution for a privacy-focused app

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Tyson Trautmann

Engineering

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Understanding the document-relational database

Tom Camp

Fauna + Ably

Creating realtime experiences in e-commerce with Fauna and Ably

Anish Devasia

Edge computing

Why Use Fauna with edge computing?

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Building scalable solutions with Apollo Federation and Fauna

Kasper Siig

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Best practices for edge computing

Jamstack

Jamstack database

Comparing databases for Vercel and Netlify

Kovid Rathee

Edge-computing

Edge computing reference architectures

Backup-restore

Restore your database to a stable snapshot on demand

Monthly Updates

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Product Updates - July 2022

Ndafara Tsamba

serverless

Why everyone wants to go serverless

Furqan Butt

Data residency

Multi-region scaling with Fauna

Gideon Idoko

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How to use Fauna with GraphQL and PHP

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Overcoming database scaling issues with Fauna’s serverless offering

Zee Khoo

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Modernization of the database: DynamoDB to Fauna

Product updates - June 2022

Kealan Parr

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Serverless patterns reference architectures

Roel Peters

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What is change data capture?

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Eric Berg

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Data management, SOC 2 Type 2, and marketing leader to accelerate adoption 

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AWS Aurora Serverless v2: Architecture, Features, Pricing, and Comparison with Fauna