# Fauna Reviews **Vendor:** Fauna **Category:** [Database as a Service (DBaaS) Providers](https://www.g2.com/categories/database-as-a-service-dbaas) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 25 ## About Fauna Fauna is a truly serverless operational database that empowers teams to ship applications faster. It combines the flexibility of a document model with the strong consistency and rich querying power of relational systems—all built on a serverless, distributed architecture that scales automatically, without the complexity of manual provisioning, sharding, or replication. Over 80,000 development teams choose Fauna to build and scale modern transactional applications including teams from Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, Intelliculture, Hannon Hill, Cloaked, DTLR, and Insights.gg. ## Fauna Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **high scalability** of Fauna, enabling seamless performance and deployment for diverse applications globally. (4 reviews) - Users find Fauna's database to have **exceptional ease of use** , enabling quick setup and efficient query writing. (3 reviews) - Users praise Fauna for its **exceptional flexibility** , making development and schema management effortless and efficient. (3 reviews) - Users highlight the **reliability** of Fauna, appreciating its scalable, serverless architecture and low latency performance. (3 reviews) - Users praise the **exceptional customer support** from Fauna, describing the team as amazing and responsive. (2 reviews) - Customization (2 reviews) - Users love the **easy integrations** of Fauna, simplifying development and fostering seamless connectivity across applications. (2 reviews) - High Performance (2 reviews) - Migration Ease (2 reviews) - MongoDB Compatibility (2 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **difficult learning** curve and debugging challenging when using Fauna, hindering their overall experience. (2 reviews) - Users struggle with **poor documentation** , making it difficult to find patterns and troubleshoot on-premise deployments. (2 reviews) - Users find the **type system challenging to debug** , and note the absence of full text search as limiting. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complex setup** for on-premise architecture challenging, limiting integration options with Fauna. (1 reviews) - Users are frustrated with **cost issues** , as Fauna's pricing model can lead to unexpected monthly fees. (1 reviews) - Users find Fauna to be **expensive** due to its pricing model that doesn't scale down effectively after free tier limits. (1 reviews) - Inefficient Search (1 reviews) - Lack of Features (1 reviews) - Learning Curve (1 reviews) - Limited Features (1 reviews) ## Fauna Reviews ### 1. A truly serverless database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2025 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It removes the most painful part (in my opinion) of the relational database, which is the operation. As a developer looking to just develop, it gives me the abstractions and tools I need to develop the data store my app needs, without having to worry so much about how I will operate, patch, and scale the database. This isn't to say that database knowlege is not required at all, since it will happily let you write horribly inefficient queries like most databases. The recent introduction of schema enforcement to collections (tables in RDBMS parlance) along with custom check constraints makes it that much easier to migrate from your existing RDBMS. The flexibility of having schemaless or partially typed collections means that prototyping is easy and allows clamping down on the schema over time as the requirements become solidified. The ability to run logic operations, assign variables, do math, perform list/set transformations, and other things you would normally do in code inside the database makes it particularly well suited to a serverless environment. You can keep all of the transactional business logic within Fauna so that it is truly transactional, with much less application code to handle what happens if a transaction fails part way through. It is also regionless, meaning any edge compute service you may use will automatically connect to the closest replica to keep request times down for a globally distributed user base. Note that they do offer USA, EU, and Global database options with slightly different usage based pricing. Their free tier is also generous enough to prototype and run apps in order to determine if it's worth scaling the usage throughout your organization. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Unlike a traditional SQL RDBMS, you cannot span a single transaction over multiple requests. This means that all of the compute operations that might happen in between different SQL calls inside of a transaction have to be translated into FQL expressions and run inside the database. This means it takes a more work to port an existing app that uses a SQL RDBMS to Fauna. Though Fauna is serverless in operation, the costs do not "scale to $0" like some other serverless offerings. Once you exceed the limits within their generous free tier, you have to jump into a pay as you go plan or one of the other plan tiers. These have a flat monthly rate + overage model, so you pay every month regardless of how much you use. Being forced to jump into a higher tier because you want some feature locked to that higher tier while your actual usage doesn't come close to the monthly fee doesn't feel great. I would have preferred it to be a truly pay for what you use model. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having no operations means I can spend time on building my business logic. The globally distributed ACID transactions Fauna supports means I can write transactional code and not have to worry about whether it will run properly when invoked from different corners of the country. ### 2. The "best of every world" Database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tayler K. | Senior Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 13, 2025 **What do you like best about Fauna?** When I say "best of every world", it's hard to quantify. But when I talk to people about Fauna and explain it's a globally distributed, fully serverless, ACID compliant, document based relational database they always say something alongs those lines. Fauna has solved so many problems for us. It has the flexibility of a document based database and the power, security and reliability of relational database. We've been able to streamline our code, reduce response times and add powerful new features as a result of replacing DynamoDB with Fauna. Not only that, but its a breeze to set up and get the ball rolling. The FQL query language is simple, but powerful. If you can write code, you can write FQL. There's no learning curve to understand a new query language. There are some quirks to gets to grips with, but we've worked closely with the team at Fauna and they've been amazing. We believe that Fauna is the future of databases, and that when you decide to give it a try you'll agree with us. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Fauna is a comparitively young DB technology, so don't expect a bustling commiunity answering questions on StackOverflow like you might with an RDBMS. But the documentation is clear and concise, and updated regularly. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were restricted by the limited feature set of DynamoDB, but couldn't move to a conventional RDBMS becasue we needed the document based flexibility. Fauna ticked both boxes. ### 3. A new level of performance with top of the line security **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcelo R. | Head of Infrastructure and Cybersecurity, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Fauna?** The combination of being able to securely run queries on the client or an edge device with Javascript-like queries to get and mutate data make Fauna unique in the database space. Developers can quickly pick up the new tool and easily modify access rules centrally. The serverless nature of the service is amazing and is the main reason you can easily connect a massive set of devices (or lambdas) without worrying about connection pooling. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** There is nothing to dislike about Fauna but because the product is so new, it is hard to find well-documented patterns for it. Reaching out to the Fauna team is the best way to resolve edge cases. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fauna solves scaling issues we have run into with other databases specifically in the serverless realm. Building serverless services can be difficult but Fauna makes it easy to ignore the biggest integration issue which is connection pooling. ### 4. No Infrastructure, NoSQL, No Complaints **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cameron B. | Head of Software, Systems and Data, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Fauna?** We don't have to manage any infrastructure, the cost scales with us The FQL X syntax is very similar to TypeScript, which means we don't have to develop across different paradigms (frontend, backend, and database all use the same syntax) Schema management built-in means we don't have to worry about generating/applying/rolling back schema migrations Close partnership, and active Discord, means any questions or challenges are addressed quickly and time is taken by technical people to address them **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Although you can setup private endpoints to connect privately via AWS, I can't find any documentation on doing the same for on-premise architecture. Fauna is doing a great job at integrating with new cloud technologies, but it might not be an easy option for some types of infrastructure deployments. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** No infrastrucutre management, means we don't have the overhead of system administrators/DBAs, we don't need to manage replication/scaleability, and there's no requirement for OS updates with downtime etc. The costs scale with usage, which isn't true of traditional/on-premise systems. Easy to use, reducing the skills requirements for software development - don't need to learn another language since FQL X is so intuitive & similar to TypeScript ### 5. Serverless cloud database for the web **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jeremy H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2025 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It's managed, serverless, and highly scalable. The ability to write typescript like queries, and have all the reads and updates be globally consistant is amazing. The ease of projecting extra data greatly reduces the need for round-trip queries which makes everything that much more performant. Finally, the fine-grained security makes it easy to allow the client to directly query the database! **What do you dislike about Fauna?** The type system can be difficult to debug. Also, fauna lacks full text search. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the need for a scalable, managed, distributed database that is globally consistent and globally available. ### 6. Set and forget database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Isis T. | Chief Technology Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 23, 2024 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Highly reliable, scalable and low latency serverless database. Its document-based renational schema makes it highly flexible for different use cases. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** The learning curve and the lack of more advanced data exploration features can add friction. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Connecting from edge distributed applications to tranditional databases is challenging due to the nature of connection pooling and lack of performant HTTP services. Fauna makes that connection a breeze, highly available and also performant. ### 7. Fauna is the only backend you need **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Micha M. | Managing Director, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 01, 2024 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Fauna has a simple to use user authentication and authorization system that is at the same extendible to a powerful enterprise ABAC system. Also, I don't need to worry about managing the server because it's serverless. Then you need to know that it's a document-based database. You store documents in a JSON structure, which gives you a lot of flexibility over traditional SQL table databases. In contrast to other document databases, Fauna offers Schemes and Types, so you always have a clear picture of your data, including data integrity. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** They could explain their great product better and more simply. You need some time to get into the docs, but you will be highly rewarded if you do it. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** We replaced our database and almost all of our backend with Fauna. Only at places where we need to call third-party Apps do we need a backend because Fauna is not (yet) supporting it. This made the whole stack so much easier for new developers joining us and also maintaining a simple tech stack. ### 8. Fauna - NoSQL with Relational Querying and Transactions **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ed A. | VICE PRESIDENT OF TECHNOLOGY, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Fauna sure does offer a lot of functionality in their free version. They have plenty of SDKs to choose from and a lot of walkthrus and tutorials. The promise of trasanctional nosql with indexes is a strong. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** The learning curve on Fauna looks daunting. It has the feel of MongoDB at first. However, it might be too much if you come from a pure SQL background. I get the feeling that Fauna might be the last database you will ever need, if you can figure out how to use it. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Fauna takes care of the servers and scaling. Setting up servers, installing services, applying patches, and managing security, are the pain points Fauna is solving. Beyond that, they have a database that is NoSQL that supports transactions and indexing. This is something that is relatively new in the NoSQL landscape. ### 9. Best Serverless DB solution out there! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Soumya Ranjan M. | Mentor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Fauna DB is fast in spinning up databases and connecting to them, though it is a serverless DB solution. There are rarely any cold starts when using it. The FQL language they have developed is very similar to GraphQL which is easy to learn for someone new to Fauna DB. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Even though FQL is easy to learn and native support for GraphQL is there, a person coming from SQL background will find it complicated and intimidating to use. If native support for this is added, it will be really helpful to SQL devs. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Outsourcing the DB needs to some platform like Fauna was really helpful for us focus on other things. As it is fast and has native support for GraphQL (which we primarily use), we found it helpful in no time. ### 10. Robust and fast yet a little tedious **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dan B. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Robust, fast, no downtimes, good balance between no-schema documents and indices. You can manage users and roles in the db, and alegedly call it directly from your client applications. I personally don't use this because my users are managed in firebase, and I have an API that facilitates all calls to the DB **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Creating indices for everything, steep learning curve for FQL and user-defined functuons. A lot of the app code goes into the DB as user-functions. I find it hard to maintain my app's code this way. I would prefer to have all my code in the server that calls the db. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cross region DB, cloud native, serverless, fair pricing. Once it was set up I almost didn't have to touch it, except for new features I needed. ### 11. Simple DB for fast development **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan B. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Fauna DB was pretty simple to use. I was able to quickly set up a database, and painlessly integrate it to the application. Free tier is small but perfect for simple hobby projects. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Documentation was not always easy to find. All the main ideas are there, but specially when working with SDK you're a little on your own. Js sdk is better documented, python not so much. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple highlevel database ready to use for simple usecases but flexiblefor scaling. It allowed me a cheap and easy data persistance for the data analysis needed in my project. ### 12. Future of Serverless DBs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jwalin T. | Graduate Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 28, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** FaunaDB is an excellent concept of taking the database to the distributed system's world by going through a serverless approach while keeping the noSQL and ACID properties of any modern database intact. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** I do not see any downside to FaunaDB. It is very well designed and structured to cater to its customers and user base utilizing the modern tech stack of serverless applications. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** FaunaDB is coming in as an alternative to cloud vendor-provided DB solutions like Firestore and DynamoDB while giving the flexibility of a NoSQL database like MongoDB ### 13. with Fauna I am enjoying the flexibility of NoSQL with the RDBMS capabilities **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** With the flexibility of NoSQL with the RDBMS capabilities, I am able to define schema files and create a relational database of need. with this, I am able to spare more time on building robust applications instead of database management **What do you dislike about Fauna?** since it is new, need to spare some time to get it handy. else I didn't find any problem working with Faunadb. I good video tutorial can help the growing community of Faunadb because i found the documentation bit confusing. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the flexibility of NoSQL with the RDBMS capabilities, Faunadb is actually giving me the superiority of both RDMS and NoSQL and hence saving me lot of time in product development rather than managing database ### 14. Easiest DB Management Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** GraphIQ made this codeless DB integration seemless. Love the ability to align with no-code systems and cross functional tech stack. Found the integration toolset very valuable. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** There is a little documentation missing, but one piece is more node script example sheets. Wishing we could have a library of code snippets that allow faster deliverability. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralizing our code base and testing ahead of deployment to validate the quality of the code. Love the real-time DB updates and feeds. ### 15. Good upcoming distributed Serverless Database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** The scaling options provided by fauna DB for the given pricing are very insightful and cheap compared to other options available in the market with similar features. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Fauna DB uses FQL, which is Fauna Query Language which has a procedural approach and might be little intimidating to new users to use when compared to other famous options available outside like GraphQL for instance. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a lot of sensitive client data which we wanted to store in a more secured way and especially at a better price and we wanted a serverless setup so that there ie very little over head on the developers. ### 16. Granular Identity Management & Function Clauses features are fantastic for our DB Server in FaunaDB **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Varshini S. | Database Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It promotes cardinality in which we can categorize numerous elements with either low cardinality (limited distinct items) or high cardinality (a large number of items). Each cluster has a defined set of nodes that belongs to replicas, and every replica will have a complete data copy within our Fauna cluster. Its data node effectively retrieves data and also carries on data persistance. GraphQL features offer us dynamic control whenever we execute queries in its directive. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** FaunaDB has its domain-specific language called Fauna Query Language (FQL). It interacts through Fauna Shell, and getting familiarity with using these utilities is a gradual learning curve and requires ample time for extensive usage. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** FaunaDB gives us granular identity management features which comply with our enterprise standards. Being a multi-tenant DBaaS provider, it provisions both admin-level and application-level identity and security enhancements for our database servers. We can code our function clauses which help in a quick filter and data analysis when we have an ample amount of data stored in our database. Further, it has both built-in and user-defined functions, which we use for avoiding duplication of code, maintaining FQL consistency, and performing abstraction and decoupling in our data stores. ### 17. FaunaDB takes the pain away from managing the DB **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sharjeel A. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Since it is a serverless database, FaundaDB doesn't require managing the DB, replication, sharding, backups etc is taken care of. Being a No-SQL Database we don't have to plan the schema well in advance. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Does not have realtime DB support. Because of this syncing is a challenge **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use FaundaDB as our backend DB only for certain requirements where we can benefit from the realtime Data ### 18. Best developer friendly database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas G. | Software engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** NoSQL acid compliance database with a developer-friendly GraphQL API. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Price seems to be a little large compared to the competition in DB industry. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** FaunaDB provides a database as a service which we can easily use with cloud API. As a developer, it is helping me to develop our product fast. ### 19. Distributed serverless DB **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It has combination of NoSQL and ACID compliant which is what most of companies need a lot right now to have performance and also save the cost for long term. Most of comanies are looking in this area. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Not available on on-premis where still lots of healthcare and insurance companies are having huge clusters on -premis. Perhaps this can be looked into to acquire more customers. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Need ACID complaint along with NoSQL db performance. It gives us that. ### 20. Seamless Cloud Managed Database with API **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Muhil V. | Tech Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2021 **What do you like best about Fauna?** The best part of Faunadb would be the fast integration and start your application with the Free plan. I use Fauna for my dynamic websites in Gatsbyjs. The flexibility it provided in terms of integration and development makes developer life more effortless. I m new to GraphQL, but the documentation and tuts on Fauna helped me to start the projects seamlessly **What do you dislike about Fauna?** One thing I would like Faunadb to have would be to create functions for the data changes happening in the data sets. Auto data aggregation sort of things **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me to set up membership platforms in an instant with the help of built-in services. ### 21. Great cloud serverless DB **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It's very flexible- provides NoSQL functions with the relational query capabilities and native GraphQL. It's also cloud based (serverless) which is so awesome! :) **What do you dislike about Fauna?** The pricing plan for individual developers and small teams is pretty high, but there is a free plan which have good quotas so you can get used to the faunaDB. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves problem with high scalable, relational ultra fast database in cloud with GraphQL option. ### 22. Can be used as an external DB to store information that need not be retained within an application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Simisara J. | Senior Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2022 **What do you like best about Fauna?** Able to send any data without the need to define the data structure priorhand. Able to store multiple data and query data. Able to manipulate and modify data easily **What do you dislike about Fauna?** Fauna's Shell doesnot allow to export the FQL query output in a usable format like CSV or json. This makes extraction and data export difficult to work with. Need good developer knowledge to script and query data **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** External hosted DB. Fauna helps to save less important data externally like form results, survey results, etc. ### 23. Fast and friendly cloud database with API **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kobi P. | Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 28, 2021 **What do you like best about Fauna?** It is pretty easy to get started on a generous free plan is enough to build a proof of concept solution. It was also straightforward to connect to my database from my app and get the data back. I used it from my C# service as well as the Node.js. The dashboard is intuitive and the extension for VS Code was helpful as well. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** One feature that I would love to have is to run some code when changes to the database occur - something like triggers in SQL databases. **Recommendations to others considering Fauna:** Advise to at least try it out to see how it works. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data storage and API ready to use with built-in authentication and authorization ### 24. FaunaDB - Provides amazing flexibility and scalability. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rodolfo S. | Data Scientist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Fauna?** This software provides flexibility, it can be used as a key-values, document-based, or chart-based database. It is quite intuitive software. It offers multiple integrations, two of them: Github or Netfly. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** FaunaDB is a scalable, reliable and easy to develop software. **Recommendations to others considering Fauna:** I recommend FaunaDB: First of all, there is a free tier! perfect for those small projects that need a back end. Second, there is native support for GraphQL queries and it has some really powerful functions. **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** FaunaDB has a very good documentation. It has built-in GraphQL integration and a lambda calculus-based query language. ### 25. Trustworthy **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Freddy M. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Fauna?** FaunaDB offers immediate access to the data that is hosted on it. It allows to modify data, delete, insert, select and read data in a natural way without limitations. **What do you dislike about Fauna?** FaunaDB makes it easy to organize and store your data. **Recommendations to others considering Fauna:** FaunaDB is a database server that offers direct replacement functionality for GraphQ. Implementation advantages: High scalability and easy integration. Real time access. Combine the simplicity of GraphQL **What problems is Fauna solving and how is that benefiting you?** FaunaDB supports document, relational, graphic and temporal data sets from a single query. 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