What is FaunaDB?
FaunaDB is a global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness and scale. It eliminates layers of app code for manually handling data anomalies, security, and scale, creating a friendlier dev experience for you and better app experience for your users.
FaunaDB is a tool in the Databases category of a tech stack.
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FaunaDB's Features
- Native support for GraphQL and others. Easily access any data with any API. No middleware necessary.
- Access all data via a data model that best suits your needs - relational, document, graph or composite.
- A unique approach to indexing makes it simpler to write efficient queries that scale with your application.
- Build SaaS apps more easily with native multi-tenancy and query-level QoS controls to prevent workload collisions.
- Eliminate data anomalies with multi-region ACID transactions that don't limit number of keys or documents.
- Data-driven RBAC that combines with SSL to offers reliable protection, and yet is simple to understand and codify.
- Travel back in time with temporal querying. Run queries at a point-in-time or as change feeds. Track how your data evolved.
- Dynamically replicates your data to global locations, so that your queries run fast no matter where your users are.
- Easily deploy a FaunaDB cluster on your workstation accompanied by a powerful shell and tools to simplify your workflow.
FaunaDB Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to FaunaDB?
MySQL
The MySQL software delivers a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL Server is intended for mission-critical, heavy-load production systems as well as for embedding into mass-deployed software.
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL is an advanced object-relational database management system
that supports an extended subset of the SQL standard, including
transactions, foreign keys, subqueries, triggers, user-defined types
and functions.
MongoDB
MongoDB stores data in JSON-like documents that can vary in structure, offering a dynamic, flexible schema. MongoDB was also designed for high availability and scalability, with built-in replication and auto-sharding.
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft® SQL Server is a database management and analysis system for e-commerce, line-of-business, and data warehousing solutions.
MariaDB
Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry. MariaDB is designed as a drop-in replacement of MySQL(R) with more features, new storage engines, fewer bugs, and better performance.
