Fauna Service Winding Down

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Post by jaredwiener » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:17 PM UTC

Fauna Service Winding Down
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Re: Fauna Service Winding Down

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Post by k__ » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:19 PM UTC

I had the impression FaunaDB was quite hyped some years ago.

What happened?

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Post by arccy » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:26 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #2

I had the impression FaunaDB was quite hyped some years ago. What happened?

unless you have a really strong unique selling point, it's hard to sell a DB that's only available as a service and not runnable locally?

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Post by carlos-menezes » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #2

I had the impression FaunaDB was quite hyped some years ago. What happened?

My take: the industry is so set on SQL as as standard that FQL made Fauna a hard sell for production applications. Also, the pricing was quite steep.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:29 PM UTC

k__ wrote: post #2

I had the impression FaunaDB was quite hyped some years ago. What happened?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:31 PM UTC

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Post by da02 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:35 PM UTC

Were their any options or competitors that came close to FaunaDB's abilities?

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Post by RadiozRadioz » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:38 PM UTC

Added to my list of troubles & worries I avoided because I didn't rely on a random external company for critical infrastructure.

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Post by film42 » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:39 PM UTC

Wow! I was looking at Fauna for a new project just yesterday. The tech looks good but a custom query language put me off pretty fast. Is this a real language or just an ORM syntax? Can I push code into the DB, or is it like the HCL of SQL?

Even so, I hope it takes on a new life as an open source project and finds success. Looking forward to reading the code.

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Post by reynaldi » Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

So sad, I was looking at Fauna for a MongoDB alternative after they removed their serverless tier. But still I'm glad I didn't go with Fauna, especially after knowing they are shutting down.