pouchdb

I love PouchDB, it's incredible, however I fear its a project that is loosing it momentum (I do think it has pick up a little over the last year though). It has a very aggressive stale bot closing issues (this search shows 700 closed stale issues https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+stale...), some which I really don't think it should have. It gives the impression of a very active but stable platform that I don't necessarily think is accurate. For example I found a version hash collision bug while working on a side project, the issue was closed as stale (https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/8257)

I played with rxdb about a year ago, it’s really clever and has some great ideas. It’s built on the incredible PouchDB (the original offline first db) which is a truly feet of engineering. However I feel it is somewhat neglected (not implying that the original maintainers have any responsibility to the users, this is free Open-source, the fact they gave it away in the first place is brilliant). When I last used it about 6 months ago there had been very little activity in years on the github and I am concerned about their use of automatically marking inactive issues stale after 60 days. There is so little activity the only issues that are open are ones from the last 60 days. I found a sync conflict[1] (basically a hash collision, the attachments are unintentionally stripped from the document before hashing) and submitted a ticket, unfortun

I am a maintainer of PouchDB - https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/, I probably spend more time working on the tests than any other part of PouchDB. We have a large test suite but still plenty of room to work on improving. If you were looking to work on testing then would be happy to give some guidance.

So the alternative options are: - pouchDB - https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb - RxDB - https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb - gunDB - https://github.com/amark/gun - horzion - https://github.com/rethinkdb/horizon - firebase - https://firebase.google.com/

Yup, exactly. We use JSON.parse inside of a try/catch and then fall back to vuvuzela (https://github.com/nolanlawson/vuvuzela) which is a non-recursive JSON parser in cases of stack overflows (here's the code: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/blob/62be5fed959bbdf91758...). Unfortunately the only way to resolve this without vuvuzela would have been to change the structure of the stored documents which would have required a large migration, so I'm glad to hear that the vuvuzela solution was the right way to go.

I cant say this without bias, but being a welcoming project has been one of my main focuses with http://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb

For doing database work in a separate thread, you used to be able to access WebSQL from a web worker on both iOS and Android, but sadly that's been dropped as of Chrome 39 and iOS 9: https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/2806 Also I don't believe you can use the SQLite Plugin in a web worker either: https://github.com/litehelpers/Cordova-sqlite-storage/issues... Luckily, you can still access IndexedDB from a web worker on both platforms (if you are able to use Safari's partial implementation). Also depending on what kind of work you're doing in the database, most of the action happens at the native level rather than the (DOM-blocking) JS level.

Closet alternative, I have seen till now, is Pouchdb https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb

1000 times yes For PouchDB (gardeners welcome - https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb), 90% of my time is between triaging issues and setting up infrastructure for contributions (mostly working on tests / CI). Sometimes every few days, at least every week I sit and go through all the issues, try and figure out whats needed to close out the old issues, a good percentage of the bugs are ones that need someone to investigate and produce a clear set of steps to reproduce. Actually after reading I am gonna start tagging these ones specifically for new contributors. Even as someone who considers myself very reactive to bug reports etc, its very easy to let it slip (https://twitter.com/daleharvey/status/451378807006838784)