I understand that HTML5 "localStorage" is a key:value store but I am wondering if there is a Javascript library available that offers a more SQL-ish API?
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HTML5 local database storage comes with a SQL interface by default, if I'm not mistaken
Here is a Webkit post with some examples: http://webkit.org/blog/126/webkit-does-html5-client-side-database-storage/
Currently, Chrome forces you to use Gears, which is slightly different, but still SQL-based. Future versions of Chrome will follow the HTML5 spec, however.
Matt
2009-12-10 02:21:13
See 4.11. Client-side database storage - http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/2007-10-26/#sql
Kevin Hakanson
2009-12-10 02:53:01
seems rather "experimental"...
jldupont
2009-12-10 14:03:04
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Check out Will HTML5 be SQL-free? and DOM Storage: a Cure for the Common Cookie for some links and opinions.
Kevin Hakanson
2009-12-10 02:56:21
Good reading in those links, thanks! I am also just going to add an article linked to in one of those that gave a good perspective on the usage of SQL for the browser storage > http://blog.vlad1.com/2009/04/06/html5-web-storage-and-sql
WmasterJ
2010-05-10 01:11:22
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W3C Database specification says:
User agents must implement the SQL dialect supported by Sqlite 3.6.19.
As of now, at least Google Chrome supports SQL dialect. I have checked myself.
N 1.1
2010-03-06 09:37:42
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You should use HTML5 database storage (it supports SQL through transactions). a tutorial here: http://www.html5rocks.com/tutorials/webdatabase/todo/
Ionut Popa
2010-07-22 12:53:50