Welcome to the Fauna documentation!

What is Fauna?

Learn More Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. Fauna combines the flexibility of NoSQL systems with the relational querying and transactional capabilities of SQL databases.

Try it out

Quick start

Get up and running quickly with an interactive introduction to Fauna.

Quick start

Build a sample app

Sample apps demonstrate Fauna’s features and capabilities in an application context.

Sample apps

New to Fauna Query Language?

Our SQL to FQL translation reference can help you get started.

FQL for SQL Users

Driver support

To start querying Fauna from your application code, choose your language:

GraphQL
GraphQL

JavaScript
JS/Node

Java
Java

C#
C#

Go
Go

Python
Python

Scala
Scala

What’s in our docs?

We have grouped our content into three main sections to help you learn Fauna:

Cookbook

Cookbooks icon Examples of queries and code for working with databases, keys, collections, user-defined functions, and indexes.

Cookbook

Tools

Tools icon Full descriptions of all the tools and integrations available with Fauna.

Tools and integrations

API Reference

API Reference icon Complete reference materials for the APIs you can use to interact with Fauna.

API reference

Explore key features

A selection of features that make Fauna easy to get started, powerful, and unique:

Security

Configure authentication and access controls.

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Data Import

Import JSON or CSV data into your database.

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Streaming

Immediately stream changes to a client application.

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Backups

Built-in redundancy with restore from snapshot.

View docs

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