Welcome to the FaunaDB documentation!
Get started with FaunaDB
FaunaDB is a distributed operational (OLTP) database for modern cloud and container-centric environments. It is the world’s first commercial database that is inspired by Calvin.
If you are totally new to FaunaDB, we recommend checking out What is FaunaDB?, trying out the Quick start with FaunaDB Shell, and then working through How to Create, Retrieve, Update, and Delete Objects in FaunaDB.
Check out our technical white paper for a quick stroll through FaunaDB’s features and benefits.
Overview
Our Tutorials chapter describes how to accomplish various data storage, retrieval, and querying tasks.
The Fauna Query Language chapter describes, in detail, all of the functions available for writing FaunaDB queries, as well as coverage of data types, documents, collections, databases, indexes, and sets.
The Drivers section describes how to install and use all of the supported, language-specific drivers available for FaunaDB.
The Security chapter provides details about FaunaDB’s keys, tokens, secrets, and attribute-based access control (ABAC).
The Concepts chapter describes all of the FaunaDB terminology.
Finally, the Release notes chapter describes how FaunaDB and the FaunaDB Console have evolved.
Feedback
If you have questions about the documentation, or discover any issues that need to be fixed, email us at support@fauna.com.