FaunaDB
A distributed multi-model database with document and graph capabilities, accessed via its custom Fauna Query Language (FQL). Supported ACID transactions and global distribution. Service was shut down in 2025.
- Overall rank
- #84
- First released
- 2016
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Built with
- Scala
Sources 9 references
Protocols HTTP/REST
Custom FQL delivered over an HTTPS API with token auth, no persistent connections; the Fauna cloud service itself was shut down on 2025-05-30.
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Delivered as an HTTPS API, Fauna offers token-based authentication and eliminates connection pooling or session management.
Fauna | The Distributed Serverless Database · via Internet Archive · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025.
Home - Fauna Docs · via Internet Archive · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
The HTTP/2 session idle timeout is the time, in milliseconds, that an HTTP/2 session will remain open after there is no more pending communication.
Fauna JavaScript driver · reviewed 2026-08-02
License Apache-2.0
Corrected from 'Proprietary': that was accurate while FaunaDB was Fauna Inc.'s closed hosted service (2016-2025), but Fauna shut the service down in 2025 and the FaunaDB Foundation subsequently open-sourced the core engine under Apache-2.0.
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FaunaDB is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this software except in compliance with the License.
LICENSE.txt · reviewed 2026-08-02
Released 2016
Confirms current value; Fauna's own launch announcement describes the database as production-ready and publicly available in managed beta in September 2016.
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Fauna is production-ready and available now in managed beta in the cloud, on-premises, and in hybrid deployments.
Welcome to the Jungle · via Internet Archive · reviewed 2026-08-02
Language Scala
Confirms current value; the open-sourced repository is 99.2% Scala per GitHub, and its own README describes a JVM/sbt-based build (sbt is the standard Scala build tool).
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FaunaDB runs on the JVM and requires a JDK version 17 installed. Fauna uses sbt as its build tool.
GitHub - fauna/faunadb · reviewed 2026-08-02
url https://web.archive.org/web/20250618121636/https://fauna.com/
fauna.com no longer belongs to the database company: the plain-http site now 301-redirects to faunarobotics.com, an unrelated humanoid-robotics startup recently acquired by Amazon. The FaunaDB service itself was sunset May 30, 2025, so the archived snapshot is the best stable link.
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The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025. For more information, read the announcement .
Fauna | The Distributed Serverless Database · reviewed 2026-08-02 -
Fauna Robotics has officially joined Amazon. We will continue selling Sprout Creator Edition robots, supporting existing customers, and building for the future as Fauna Robotics, an Amazon company.
Fauna Robotics joins Amazon · reviewed 2026-08-02
status deprecated
Fauna Inc. sunset the hosted database service on May 30, 2025 and has not resumed it; this matches the catalogue's existing status.
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The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025. For more information, read the announcement .
Fauna | The Distributed Serverless Database · reviewed 2026-08-02