Fauna is a data application programming interface (API) for applications that facilitates clients with serverless backends.
FaunaDB offers a web-native GraphQL API that is accessible directly from a browser, mobile client, or other serverless function. The web-native GraphQL interface combines support for custom business logic and integration with the serverless ecosystem, enabling developers to simplify code and ship faster.
The company's goal is to provide a powerful “data API” for serverless apps, so that developers don’t even need to touch a database system.
Timeline
Further Resources
AiA 282: Fauna and Cloud Databases with Evan Weaver - Devchat.tv
Web
May 2020
Consistency without Clocks: The FaunaDB Distributed Transaction Protocol
Fauna Blog
October 19, 2018
Demystifying Database Systems, Part 1: An Introduction to Transaction Isolation Levels
Fauna Blog
May 3, 2019
FaunaDB's Official Jepsen Results
Fauna Blog
March 5, 2019
