A distributed relational database with a document data model and delivered globally as a cloud API.

• DB rank: 156 (Feb 2024)

Deprecated

Past

• Fauna pocketed $27 million in VC funding in 2020
• Former technical lead at Twitter's database team, Matt Freels, co-founded FaunaDB along with fellow Twitter veteran Evan Weaver, who left in 2023.

The Future of Fauna

The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025.

• cause: Driving broad based adoption of a new operational database that runs as a service globally is very capital intensive.
• committing to releasing an open source version of Fauna’s core database technology.
  • This ensures that Fauna's unique capabilities will be available to the community.
  • transactional features | document-relational data model | database language (FQL)

Design

An intuitive database language inspired by TypeScript supports relational features such as foreign keys, views, and joins and combines the ability to express queries and functional business logic in transactions that are strongly consistent across multiple regions.

• Never worry about database provisioning, scaling, sharding, or replication again.

Tier

Free tier

• Only provide US / Europe as Region Group option

Connect

Driver

• python
• golang
• js
  • npm @davidkhala/fauna
• .net