Today we made a significant announcement about the future of the Fauna service which impacts your usage going forward.
After careful consideration, we have made the hard decision that we will be winding down the Fauna service for our existing customers over the next several months. The Fauna service will be ending on May 30, 2025.
We are profoundly grateful to all of our customers who have been integral to the Fauna journey. We would not have accomplished what we did without your support. We understand that this is going to be a disruptive change to many and are fully committed to working with you to help you migrate off the service over the next several months.
To read more about this announcement, the migration support, and the timelines please follow the links below:
Announcement
Migration guide
FAQs for Fauna customers
Thank you,
The Fauna Team
I work for a company that actively uses Fauna. A two-month timeframe is absolutely unrealistic for migration. As I understand it, the only chance is to deploy Fauna independently. Tell me, is this possible? Haven’t you published the code yet?
Hello @Fauna_Support,
There is mention in the announcement that Fauna will be open sourcing the technology. However, there is no information in the FAQ or migration guide about this.
What is the time frame for open sourcing the technology? Is that actually going to happen at all? Folks need answers much sooner than later in order to determine if trying to self host whatever Fauna may open source is a viable alternative to completely migrating off of Fauna. To my knowledge, there is nothing quite like what Fauna provides and making a migration is going to require a lot of tradeoffs and reworks of existing codebases. If there is a serious plan to open source the technology so folks could self host it, then your users need to know definitively in order to make the appropriate plans.
Thank you,
-Ryan Causey
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Hi @rcausey,
The open source technology will not be ready before the shutdown and that’s why we don’t mentioned it in the FAQ or migration guide. Unfortunately, the only option is to move to another database.
Can we use development version Docker image for temp solution?
@Fauna_Support Why not actually? Excuse my cynicism here, but if 9 weeks apparently is enough time to force all your customers to refactor their database implementations to a completely different type of database and migrate all their data, it surely is enough time to open source Fauna? Especially since Fauna had to have weeks (or at least days) of prior knowledge about what was going to happen. Valuable time that you haven’t provided to your paying customers.
Hi @Fauna_Support,
Firstly, sorry to hear this news for the faunaDB team. You really were delivering something that met a niche in the market. I can’t readily imagine how my product would readily migrate to another available database model.
For the avoidance of any doubt, is the plan to:
- eventually release an open source version of the core database technology and it will certainly not be available for May 30, or
- has the commitment made in the announcement been rescinded or deemed unachievable?
@Darryl_Naidu,
We do intend to make an open source version available over the next few months.
We are actively working on this project but given that Fauna was built and optimized to be delivered as a multi-tenant, highly distributed service, providing an open source version is going to be complex and will not be completed by May 30th. We cannot provide an exact ETA at this time
Hey @Fauna_Support,
I recently completed a migration of 2 api and scheduler back-ends to Fauna for use in Cloudflare Workers. This has been working perfectly and I hate to see it go. With that said, what db do you recommend migrating to for use in Cloudflare Workers (http calls)? I previously used the MongoDb http api until it was deprecated. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
@Natas0007 ,
We don’t have a strong recommendation but if you can make things work with D1, that would probably work the best.
Otherwise, refer to this list: Connect to databases · Cloudflare Workers docs