Would be interesting to see how this benchmarks against the in-memory db of lovefield (https://github.com/google/lovefield)
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Lovefield is a relational database for web apps. Written in JavaScript, works cross-browser. Provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use.
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Lovefield is a relational database for web apps. Written in JavaScript, works cross-browser. Provides SQL-like APIs that are fast, safe, and easy to use.
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Lovefield
Lovefield is a relational database written in pure JavaScript.
It provides SQL-like syntax and works cross-browser (currently supporting
Chrome 37+, Firefox 31+, IE 11+, Edge, and Safari 10+).
Please visit our
public forum for
general Q&A, feedback, and discussions.
Quick Start
Frequently Asked Questions
Specification
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Lovefield is
Day 98 of 100 days of Google Dev.
This is a quick 7-minute video filmed in August 2015.
Live 30min overview presentation at JS.LA (February 2015): Watch on
YouTube or
Vimeo.
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4 sourcesThanks for the info! It seems Google see the need for it - great.
Announcement from Nov 2014: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2014/11/lovefield-powe...
Video of a recent presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRiI4p5Uk4E
Lovefield actually uses WebSQL in certain cases: WebSQL backstore shall be considered a gap-stopping patch
18 and will be removed as soon as Apple fixes IndexedDB bugs in Safari. -- https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/lib/backstor...
I wonder why the would remove WebSQL support? Isn't it faster to rely on a native C library in the case of Safari (WebSQL uses SQLite) than riding piggyback an SQL layer on top of IndexedDB on top of SQLite as it is the case in Firefox?
In Show HN: SheetSQL – SQL Engine inside Google SheetThis was presented at I/O this week:
https://github.com/google/lovefield
In Show HN: SheetSQL – SQL Engine inside Google SheetLovefield: A Cross-Browser SQL-Like Query Engine from Google
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