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Fauna has been building out its serverless database technology since 2015 as a developer-focused platform for helping organizations build a range of data-driven applications, including e-commerce, web development and gaming.
Fauna is a NoSQL database platform, and it has developed its own Fauna Query Language (FQL) for data queries. On Nov. 17 the vendor made generally available an intelligent routing capability to let organizations better manage and access Fauna database deployments around the world. The new capability builds on other upgrades the vendor has released in 2022, including the debut of real-time streaming support in March.
Fauna competes against several developer-focused databases, including Planetscale and CockroachDB, both of which offer serverless platforms.
Fauna has been led since 2000 by CEO Eric Berg, who has positioned the vendor’s technology with a database-as-an-API approach. In this Q&A, Berg outlines the direction the serverless database platform is headed as it brings relational capabilities to its NoSQL platform.
What is the document relational model at the heart of the Fauna serverless database?
Eric Berg
Eric Berg: Fauna is a different kind of database architecture; we call it document relational. It fundamentally is a document-based NoSQL store. But we bring to that the power of relationships and foreign keys to be able to create relationship across those documents. We also have a query language that looks a lot more like what you can do in a traditional relational database.
Fauna is also distributed by default. We use a Calvin-based read ahead log to be able to distribute and replicate data that provides responsiveness and bring data closer to your user, It gets you reliability, because you span across regions.
What does the term serverless database actually mean, and how is it different for Fauna?
Berg: People will call all kinds of things serverless. To some, it’s just a pricing model where users can consume things…
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