Fauna

Serverless transactional document database delivered as a web-native API

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Websitefauna.com

CategoryData & backend

PricingFreemium

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ABOUT

What is Fauna?

Fauna is a serverless document database delivered as a web-native API, with transactional consistency, FQL and official drivers. It includes built-in authorization, streams and multi-region access without requiring users to manage database servers.

BEFORE YOU SIGN UP

What you should know

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Transactional API without serversFauna exposes database operations over a web-native API, so applications do not need connection pools or database server maintenance.

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Built-in auth and streamsAuthorization features and real-time document streams are part of the platform rather than separate services to assemble.

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FQL v10 is the current APIThe official JavaScript and Python drivers target FQL v10. They are not compatible with earlier FQL versions, which require older clients.

Free quotas are limitedThe free plan enforces 100,000 reads, 50,000 writes, 500,000 compute operations and 100 MB of storage per month.

COMMUNITY

From the forums

Community feedback has often praised Fauna's transactional API, built-in authorization and ability to support globally distributed applications without database operations work. The main friction points are learning FQL, understanding operation-based billing, and handling compatibility differences between the current FQL v10 drivers and older v4 clients.

— Community sentiment · Reddit

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does Fauna include for free?＋

The Free plan includes 5 databases, 100,000 transactional reads, 50,000 transactional writes, 500,000 transactional compute operations and 100 MB of storage per month.

Does Fauna use SQL?＋

Fauna uses FQL, its own query language, rather than SQL. The current official drivers target FQL v10, while older clients target earlier API versions.

What is Fauna best suited for?＋

It fits serverless applications that need transactional document data, built-in authorization, streams or global access without managing database servers.