Fauna Pricing, Features & Alternatives
Globally distributed document-relational database service.
Fauna combined JSON documents, relational constraints, and globally distributed transactions in a managed database. The hosted service shut down in May 2025. Its code now survives as an early-stage open-source project, which does not restore the former cloud service.
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Previously used for
Historical reference for teams evaluating migrations from Fauna's former document-relational database and FQL query model.
- Workloads
- APIs
- Backend Services
- Data Processing
- Real-Time Applications
- Web Applications
- Services
- Managed Databases
- Delivery
- Managed
Development & Execution
Supported platform capabilities, execution environments, development technologies, deployment models, integrations, and triggers.
Database support
- Document
Client languages
- C#
- Go
- Java
- JavaScript
- Python
- TypeScript
Framework compatibility
- Next.js
- React
Integrations
- GitHub
- Netlify
- Vercel
Triggers
- Database Events
- HTTP Requests
Deployment model
- Serverless (Managed Runtime)
FAQ
Can you still use Fauna as a hosted database?
No. Fauna shut down its hosted database service on May 30, 2025. All Fauna accounts and their associated hosted data were permanently deleted after the service ended.
Is FaunaDB open source now?
Yes. The former Fauna database service is now available as the open source FaunaDB project, including the original service code, drivers, and CLI. The project is still at an early stage, and there are no official releases of the database service yet.
Why did Fauna shut down?
Fauna said the hosted service was capital-intensive to scale and that its board and investors determined the company could not raise the capital needed to continue independently in the market at that time. The hosted Fauna service ended on May 30, 2025.
Can I migrate from Fauna to Postgres or MongoDB?
Yes, but neither Postgres nor MongoDB is a drop-in replacement for Fauna. Fauna required customers to move their applications and data to another database before shutdown, so schema, query, and application changes depend on the target you choose.