AI visibility report for Fauna in Databases & Data Infrastructure.

Fauna (formerly FaunaDB) was a globally distributed, serverless document-relational database delivered as a cloud API. Founded in 2012 by Twitter database engineers Evan Weaver and Matt Freels, Fauna combined the schema flexibility of document databases with strong ACID consistency and relational querying power—without requiring infrastructure provisioning, sharding, or cluster management. It served over 80,000 development teams across customers including Tyson Foods, Unilever, Lexmark, and Hannon Hill. Backed by $57M from investors including GV, Madrona Venture Group, and CRV, Fauna was particularly popular in serverless and JAMstack ecosystems via integrations with Netlify, Vercel, and Cloudflare Workers. In March 2025, Fauna announced it would shut down the managed service on May 30, 2025, citing an inability to raise capital, while committing to open-sourcing its core database technology.