Knowledge Hub
FaunaDB
Feature | FaunaDB | |
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Infrastructure, Underlying technology Cloud Infrastructure, database system and underlying egine | Calvin protocol, native globally-distributed system | |
Serverless Support Serverless and Edge computing support | ||
API | JavaScript package for serverless environment | |
Edge Functions Serverless functions that run closer to the user, reducing latency and improving performance. | Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge Functions, Netlify Edge Functions | |
Developer Experience | ||
Database type | OLTP | |
Data model Databases store data in models, such as Relational, Columnar or Document based | Document-relational, NoSQL | |
CLI Command Line Interface tools that allow developers to perform tasks and manage the tool via the command line. | fuana-shell | |
Languages, APIs The languages supporting the database and API interface for inter-process communication | JavaScript, Python, Java, Go, and Scala, GraphQL API | |
Query language Supported query language such as SQL, MQL, PartiQL, | FQL, GraphQL | |
ACID compliant ACID is a set of properties of database transactions intended to guarantee data validity despite errors, power failures, and other mishaps | Guaranteeing ACID transactions in a globally distributed database | |
Self-hosting Support for self-hosted Database instance | Only Enterprise Plan members, AWS, GCP | |
Backups | Daily snapshots. Can be scheduled by user. | |
Security & Compliance Offerings | ||
SOC2 Service Organization Control 2 compliance for managing customer data. | ||
Multi-factor authentication Support of the cloud-histed database for multi-factor authentication | ||
Encryption Cryptographic security at rest and on transportation level | TLS | |
SSO | ||
Monitoring and analytics | ||
Log retention Query log retention usually keeps lofs of operations for debugging and replication purposes | Document level history 30 days retention | |
Statistics Tools and APIs for analysing and monitoring of Database performance | Web based dashboard | |
Scalability | ||
Replication and Partitioning | Region Groups, available in EU and US. Regional isolated replicas (GDPR compliant) |