On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Charles McCathie Nevile < chaals@yandex-team.ru> wrote: > The Webapps group will continue to try and reach industry agreement on > ways to handle data storage for offline applications. Help is appreciated. > Trying to help is generally appreciated too. > A slight tangent, but coming from WebGL where we're dealing with a lot of binary data, the inability of WebSQL and IndexedDB to deal with Array Buffers is quite an obstacle. The File storage API however isn't supported anywhere but Chrome. I don't think it's mandatory for a query based API to also support binary blobs. Traditionally this has often been solved in similar situations by storing keys (paths) to an appropriate provider of binary storage (such as a filesystem). Similar uses could be made if browsers supported both a query based DB and a filesystem like API for lookups by key/value. On a related note, key/value backing stores might not be terribly fancy compared to query based backing stores. But a surprising number of data modelling problems does not neatly fit into relational logic well (usually graphs, see also the popularity of key/value backing stores and the whole NoSQL stuff). So for me a query based backing store would be nice to have. But a good key/value backing store with the ability to store binary isn't really optional.
Received on Monday, 12 November 2012 12:31:00 UTC