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Fauna combines the querying, strong consistency, and schema capabilities of a relational database with the flexibility and scalability of JSON documents, all delivered on a truly serverless model with zero engineering operations.

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Fauna offers better global data distribution with less complexity and cost

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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

Build multi-tenant databases with strong security controls

Document storage with relations for application data and knowledge graphs

Low latency applications for a distributed user base 

More ways to build and scale applications without limits

Fauna is distributed and delivered as a global API with zero-ops

Fauna reflects modern development and deployment patterns

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

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Power Your Developer Experience with AI: Introducing Fauna’s AI Assistant

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Comparing Fauna and MongoDB

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Edge applications

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Why Use Fauna with edge computing?

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How to use Fauna with GraphQL and PHP

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Evan Weaver

Stepping back 

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What is change data capture?

Shashank Golla

Backup-restore

Restore your database to a stable snapshot on demand

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

Cintia Del Rio

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Comparing DynamoDB and Fauna for multi-region data stores

Zee Khoo

NFT Bridge

Shrink your dApp's server footprint with Fauna

Segun Saka-Aiyedun

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Introduction to serverless databases

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Shadid Haque

Data import

Migrate data into Fauna with new data import feature

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Building a REST API with AWS Lambda, Fauna, and Serverless Framework

The top blockchain development frameworks for 2022

Rob Sutter

GraphQL

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Accelerating delivery with GraphQL and Fauna

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Product Updates - March 2022

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When to use GraphQL, gRPC, REST, and Webhooks

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Create secure, real-time applications with Fauna event streaming

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How to integrate event streaming into your applications

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GDPR vs. CCPA: Data privacy requirements explained

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How to use streams in Node.js

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Applying test-driven development to your database

Increasing development velocity with GraphQL and Fauna

Wyatt Wenzel

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Building integrated centralized and decentralized applications

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The quest for the universal protocol: Mainframes, databases, and CORBA

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The quest for the universal protocol: REST, XML, and GraphQL

Jaden Baptista

Fauna Vercel Edge Functions

Delivering faster user experiences with Vercel Edge Functions and Fauna

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Tyson Trautmann

Database security

Fauna’s response to the Log4Shell zero-day vulnerability

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How to build an edge API gateway with Fastly's Compute@Edge and Fauna

Jacob Jackson

Single page app

Comparing SPAs to SSG and SSR

Bridging on-chain and off-chain data in NFTs with Fauna

Authentication

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Authenticating users with a blockchain wallet and Fauna

GraphQL tutorial: How to get started

Best practices for GraphQL mutations

Best practices for testing GraphQL APIs

GraphQL vs REST

GraphQL vs REST: What’s the difference?

How to work with caching in GraphQL

Matt Arthur

Trusting Fauna

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Intro to modern JavaScript frameworks

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Reducing complexity by integrating through the database

Batch vs streaming

Batch vs. stream processing: Pros and cons

What is Web3 and why is it important?

What is role-based access control (RBAC)?

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Product Updates - October 2021

How to develop locally using serverless offline

Scale a database

How to scale a database

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 User authentication in Fauna (an opinionated guide)

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RDBMS vs. NoSQL: What’s the difference?

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Edge computing vs. cloud computing: What’s the difference? 

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Real world database latency

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 Authenticating users with AWS Cognito in Fauna

Product Updates - September 2021

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Additional features to help you build faster!

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Migrating your GraphQL schema with Fauna

Jeff Smick

Engineering

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Building Fauna’s GDPR-compliant distributed and scalable database infrastructure with Pulumi

Database security best practices for 2021: A guide

Nishant Madichetti

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Building scalable dApps with Ethereum, Polygon and Fauna

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What is a database transaction?

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A comparison of transaction models in distributed document databases

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Product Updates - July 2021

News

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

Delivering personalized content with Netlify’s Next.js Advanced Middleware and Fauna (1)

Introducing Fauna’s SOC2 Certification

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Meet data residency requirements with Fauna Region Groups

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New Service Foundation and GTM Leadership to Accelerate Customer Success Globally

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

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Tutorials

Power Your Developer Experience with AI: Introducing Fauna’s AI Assistant

Why Use Fauna with edge computing?

Restore your database to a stable snapshot on demand

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

Accelerating delivery with GraphQL and Fauna

Meet data residency requirements with Fauna Region Groups

New in Fauna: Add Fauna to your Vercel applications in minutes

Comparing Fauna and DynamoDB pricing

Introducing new capabilities for collaboration, third-party authentication and real-time streaming

Announcing Fauna API v3

The Fauna Extension for Visual Studio Code

Announcing Built-in Collection Indexes