---
title: "A RedMonk Conversation: Why the future of serverless databases is distributed document-relational"
date: 2022-08-11T18:18:40Z
modified: 2022-08-11T18:18:40Z
permalink: "https://redmonk.com/videos/a-redmonk-conversation-why-the-future-of-serverless-databases-is-distributed-document-relational/"
type: video
status: publish
excerpt: ""
wpid: 3110
series:
  - Conversations
channel:
  - RedMonk Video
featured_image: "https://redmonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/RMC-Fauna-Thumbnail.jpg"
timestamp: 2022-08-11T18:18:40Z
tags:
  - Conversations
  - RedMonk Video
---

We recently spoke to Fauna about what the company is seeing in terms of flexible database services for modern application development, and why it’s calling its approach Document-relational. As we move to a world where developers increasingly build applications using cloud-based managed services with clean APIs the database is, as ever, up for grabs as a strategic and tactical choice. Managed databases are becoming ever more sophisticated, and relational databases are undergoing a renaissance. GraphQL, Data Governance, ACID compliance with schema flexibility – are becoming table stakes.