Fauna provides serverless, multi-region, transactional database instances that are accessible via a cloud API. Fauna is a flexible, developer-friendly, transactional database delivered as a secure and scalable cloud API with native GraphQL. Never again worry about database provisioning, scaling, sharding, replication, or correctness.

The Fauna Query Language provides many built-in functions that can be used to query and modify a database. Functions, also known as user-defined functions (or UDFs), provide a mechanism to store and run commonly used Fauna queries.



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Amazon DynamoDB is a key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale. It's a fully managed, multi-region, multi-active, durable database with built-in security, backup and restore, and in-memory caching for internet-scale applications.

DynamoDB differs from other Amazon services by allowing developers to purchase a service based on throughput, rather than storage. If Auto Scaling is enabled, then the database will scale automatically. Additionally, administrators can request throughput changes and DynamoDB will spread the data and traffic over a number of servers using solid-state drives, allowing predictable performance.

Free Plan

Free (forever) monthly capacity

• 100k read ops
• 50k write ops
• 500k compute ops
• 100Mb storage

Paid Plans

• From $23/month   - Good for professional developers building production applications.
• From $135/month - Good for teams of developers building rich applications.
• From $450/month - Good for enterprise teams building full-featured, global applications.

Example Pricing

Applications with 10M read ($4.50), 500K compute ($1.00) & 1M write ops ($2.25) &  1GB storage ($0.23) $6.98 USD

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Dynamo DB's prices vary according to region, the provided example utilizes the US East (N. Virginia) prices.

Free Tier

• 25 GB of data storage
  
• 2.5 million stream read requests from DynamoDB Streams
• 1 GB of data transfer out, aggregated across AWS services  
  
  

Example Pricing

Applications with 10M reads ($2,5), 1M writes ($1,25), 1 GB ($0,25) and continuous backup ($0,20) $4,20 USD

Onboarding
Good documentation. Easy signup with the free plan. Cookbook to start easy. There could be a learning curve using FQL. the query language of Fauna. 

Scalability
Automatic scaling, sharding, and replication

Data residence Regions
United States, Europe. More coming soon
Region Groups provide control over where your data resides: each database, its storage, and its compute services exist in a specific geographic region. The capability makes it possible to comply with data locality legislation, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe while benefiting from Fauna’s distributed service features.

Backups 
Automatic backup, replication, and correctness. It makes three replicas in the United States if your region was the USA and the same for Europe. If you didn't select any specific region then Fauna will make two replication copies in the United States and one in Europe.

Europe: three replicas in Europe

Security
Supports JWT, ABAC-based role, and permissions. Identity and anonymous-based access.

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Onboarding
Rich in documentation, with a great tutorial to start things off.

Scalability
Has automatic scaling as an option.

Regions
United States, Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East.

To connect programmatically to an AWS service, you use an endpoint. In addition to the standard AWS endpoints, some AWS services offer FIPS endpoints in selected Regions.

Backups 
Charged separatedly from the project. Has three different options: Continuous backups, on-demand, or restoring a table.

Security
AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS services in the AWS Cloud. Includes data protection, identity and access management, infrastructure security, and more.

Whether you’re building new browser-based or mobile apps, augmenting your microservices, or modernizing existing systems, Fauna gives you the capabilities and the scale that you need without the complexity.

• Supports Document, Graph & key-value data models
• Distributed ACID transactions 
• Global low-latency
• Multi-tenant databases
• Real-time streaming
• No database operations

Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database that supports key-value and document data models. Developers can use DynamoDB to build modern, serverless applications that can start small and scale globally to support petabytes of data and tens of millions of read and write requests per second.

• Microsecond latency with DynamoDB Accelerator
  
• Automated global replication with global tables
  
• Read/write capacity modes
  
• On-demand mode
  
• ACID transactions
• Encryption at rest
  
• Point-in-time recovery
  
• On-demand backup and restore
  

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