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Date Published
Author
Luis Colon
Word count
2518
Language
English
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None

Summary

Fauna offers a robust DynamoDB alternative as a serverless, scalable, ACID-compliant document-relational database that provides low latency transactional performance without compromising data integrity. Migrating from DynamoDB to Fauna will help you realize significant short- and long-term benefits while preserving many of the values that had you consider a serverless distributed database in the first place. By leveraging Fauna's auto-sharding, replication, and scale-out infrastructure, developers can simplify their business logic and operational concerns without having to explicitly set anything up. This migration allows for high availability without global table limitations, geographical isolation, and flexible indexing options. The process includes planning a proof-of-concept, preparing the development team, setting up tools, application security controls, and post-migration usage. Fauna provides a low-cost alternative with superior data consistency and cost savings compared to DynamoDB.