FaunaDB

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)