# Fauna: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/fauna

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [NoSQL databases](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/it-data/nosql-databases/index.md) | 0% | 67 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Status: Shut down ... Avoid proprietary, cloud-only databases (like FaunaDB was)" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, NoSQL)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Fauna, from 2 of the 2 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- github.com: 2
- news.ycombinator.com: 2
- vonng.com: 2
- admin-magazine.com: 1
- aerospike.com: 1
- apmdigest.com: 1
- aws.amazon.com: 1
- azure.microsoft.com: 1
- bvicam.in: 1
- cloud.baidu.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item: 2
- http://bvicam.in/INDIACom/news/INDIACom%202017%20Proceedings/Main/papers/1583.pdf: 1
- https://admin-magazine.com/layout/set/print/Archive/2024/84/When-you-should-and-should-not-use-NoSQL-databases: 1
- https://aerospike.com/blog/managed-cloud-database-guide: 1
- https://apmdigest.com/managed-database-default-resilience-risk: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/category/learning-levels/advanced-300/page/31: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/compare/aurora-and-rds: 1
- https://aws.amazon.com/rds/features/security: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.