IndexedDB is fine for storing JSON objects, etc. but a relational database with SQL query syntax, indexes, etc. more powerful and means less code to write. With IndexedDB one has to reinvent the wheel to just get basic query features.
WebSQL is not deprecation, the W3C Working Group Note actually says:
'This specification is no longer in active maintenance
and the Web Applications Working Group does not intend to
maintain it further'.
WebSQL is only available in Webkit based Browsers (Safari, Chrome) which means most mobile browsers.
As SQLite is in public domain, no company would "loose their face" if they choose to use it. They could fork off SQLite and change the SQL query syntax (parser) to whatever the W3C finds suitable. https://www.sqlite.org
Mozilla Firefox and FirefoxOS both already ship SQLite for years and can be accessed by its internal JavaScript API. And several Microsoft products already use it anyway (e.g. Forza Xbox games). Microsoft has of course also various other SQL database libraries like MS Access JetRed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine ), MS Outlook JetBlue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine ) and MS SQL Server Express (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Express ) the SQL backend originally forked off for WinFS for Longhorn (Vista beta). It would be trivial for Microsoft to choose one of its many SQL engines and add it to IE 12. The same goes for Mozilla (just expose the API of SQLite).
One can speculate that a less powerful HTML5 API translates in the long run to more SQL server licenses for Oracle and Microsoft. If the web app devs cannot do the processing & storage on the client side, one has to do it on the server side.
Anyway, I hope that we get an SQL API for HTML 5.x that also Mozilla and/or Microsoft implements. As of now WebSQL works fine in Webkit based browser which includes Safari, Chrome, Opera and includes also 95% of all smart phones.
It's still sad that because of Mozilla and Microsoft we have no SQL API in all HTML5 browsers :(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSQL
IndexedDB is fine for storing JSON objects, etc. but a relational database with SQL query syntax, indexes, etc. more powerful and means less code to write. With IndexedDB one has to reinvent the wheel to just get basic query features.
WebSQL is not deprecation, the W3C Working Group Note actually says:
WebSQL is only available in Webkit based Browsers (Safari, Chrome) which means most mobile browsers.As SQLite is in public domain, no company would "loose their face" if they choose to use it. They could fork off SQLite and change the SQL query syntax (parser) to whatever the W3C finds suitable. https://www.sqlite.org
Mozilla Firefox and FirefoxOS both already ship SQLite for years and can be accessed by its internal JavaScript API. And several Microsoft products already use it anyway (e.g. Forza Xbox games). Microsoft has of course also various other SQL database libraries like MS Access JetRed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine ), MS Outlook JetBlue (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Storage_Engine ) and MS SQL Server Express (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_Server_Express ) the SQL backend originally forked off for WinFS for Longhorn (Vista beta). It would be trivial for Microsoft to choose one of its many SQL engines and add it to IE 12. The same goes for Mozilla (just expose the API of SQLite).
For some reason Oracle and Mozilla pushed IndexedDB. Oracle has conflicting interests, as it owns OracleDB(SQL), MySQL (SQL) and BerkeleyDB (NoSQL and now also SQL support, based on SQLite). Oracle is an official "sponsor" of SQLite development and even ships it as part of it's BerkeleyDB package: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-technolo... and https://www.sqlite.org/index.html#consortium_members
Mozilla tried to explain why they prefer IndexedDB over WebSQL: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-... and by an Mozilla dev https://web.archive.org/web/20130723044210/http://blog.vlad1... (I generally like Firefox and FirefoxOS but not implementing WebSQL is one of the worst actions that of Mozilla org, IMHO).
One can speculate that a less powerful HTML5 API translates in the long run to more SQL server licenses for Oracle and Microsoft. If the web app devs cannot do the processing & storage on the client side, one has to do it on the server side.
Anyway, I hope that we get an SQL API for HTML 5.x that also Mozilla and/or Microsoft implements. As of now WebSQL works fine in Webkit based browser which includes Safari, Chrome, Opera and includes also 95% of all smart phones.