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It's just insane how different experiences are. I've let it spin for 2 days on difficult tasks for my job, it found very complex esoteric race condition bugs which were genuinenly …

There is value in both, at Fauna we provide GraphQL out the box. Using Fauna directly would eliminate an indirection and is probably slightly more efficient. However, if there is a…

Which should be the case, depending on what you do you will probably experience 10-50ms read latencies. Look for Evan's answers why the measured values here are higher.

No it's not, that price is far far smaller and should not impact pure reads. This is probably an artifact of an anti-pattern where the same documents are constantly updated which c…

Region selection is coming up if that interests you. We are actively working on it :)

Exactly! That's how I've built until now, a mix of databases. But it's also harder to manage. Database vendors notice this and that results in databases that start offering alterna…

Freeform flexibility is one aspect, but a document-style could also simply be a preference for how you want to structure your data or typically has an impact on how joins happen (i…

'NoSQL' can be transactional and relational. The question should always be: "this is my problem, what's the best database?". NoSQL is such a huge bucket that the original question …

I would go a step further, you can't even talk about NoSQL vs SQL. It's about database features, the join patterns, how scaling happens, both are overlapping more and more and will…

Exactly, but it goes further than that. The mentality never made sense since the term NoSQL never made sense to start. It's amazing how many people use a term that just originated …

Social media are typically quite heavy on tree traversals. That kind of pattern is very similar to trying to resolve a deep ORM query or a deep GraphQL query which also doesn't map…

Easy searching is definitely in our roadmap but for people who might pass by I did want to point out that you can already get some form of text search due to the way we index array…

If I'm not mistaking, Dynamo's streaming is pulling under the hood. I suppose it depends on how frequently it pulls how quickly the price goes up and how expensive such a pull is i…

> Why do this? One possibility is that the ways that Fauna actually is better than DynamoDB are too subtle to get anyone's attention. They're real and useful, but not ridiculous. T…

At the bottom of this page you can see the regions (and future regions) https://fauna.com/features . Since Fauna is inspired by Calvin we are not dependent on clocks like Spanner t…

It's at the same time miss-education through over-simplification IMHO although it was never intended like that. Availability is never 100% so everything is far more subtle. I'd pre…

It also doesn't really overcome CAP. As far as I understood, it just comes so close that people perceive it as a CAP system but technically it's still a CP system. Which can also b…

Assuming something in the same vein as fizx with the addition that it's probably very similar to what Join Monster tries to solve: https://github.com/join-monster/join-monster

I'm wondering how FaunaDB's GraphqL would suit you? It's basically: "drop in schema, get API". You can't do everything that you'll ever need yet but you can go quite far and the im…

Thanks, that's valuable feedback :) We indeed are currently providing a lot of building blocks that can solve a wide range of scenarios but did not focus too much yet (until now) o…

Did you check FaunaDB by any chance? I'm wondering whether their ABAC systems + UDFs would satisfy your needs.

I wonder, given your experience, did you ever try FaunaDB? It grew from the not optimal experience when scaling databases like Cassandra etc @ Twitter. Consistent + relational + mu…

Tbh I don't think that makes sense since it depends on what your definition of NoSQL is. Some people say 'no relations' others say 'no sql' others say 'eventual consistency'. Some …

Good to know in that case, that you can create as many databases as you want in one FaunaDB account and even create databases in databases (parent keys get access to child database…