About Fauna

Document-relational

• Combine the flexibility and familiarity of JSON documents with the relationships and querying power of a traditional relational database
• Store data as documents to write different data shapes to a collection
• Query your database using relational features like foreign keys, views, and joins
• Reduce complexity in your application code by executing business logic on your data directly in your database

User defined functions (UDFs)

• Write business logic using user-defined functions in your database with Fauna Query Language (FQL)
• Call UDFs directly in GraphQL using custom resolvers
• Reduce time to get started with built-in functions for common queries and build your own functions using UDFs

Modern security model

• Create fine-grained access controls to manage identity-based operations for your databases with ABAC
• Leverage your current identity provider (Auth0, JWT, and others) to authenticate users in Fauna
• Ensure your database is securely queried with token-based authentication

Event streaming

• Send clients real-time updates from your database using an open, push-based streaming solution
• Ensure authenticated access of data in streams through Fauna's attribute-based access control (ABAC)
• Eliminate any code and infrastructure built for polling with automated real-time streaming

Programming interfaces

• Create and access your database using drivers in JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, Go, and Scala
• Get OOTB CRUD queries, mutations, and collections with our GraphQL API and call UDFs directly from GraphQL using resolvers
• Interface with Fauna directly from the CLI and visualize your usage in our dashboards

Data import

• Import GBs of JSON or CSV files to a new or existing collection from your CLI with support to define data types
• Migrate data from your existing application or upload sample data to get started with Fauna
• Upload data to Fauna with our dry run functionality to ensure your imports are successful

Developer tooling

• Deploy your applications with confidence by integrating unit tests against Fauna with your preferred testing framework
• Develop and test Fauna locally with Fauna’s docker image
• Manage your Fauna databases and resources directly in the Serverless Framework
• Browse your Fauna databases, indexes, collections, documents, and UDFs from your VSCode IDE