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Professional developers in need of a tool to build offline-capable web applications
About IndexedDB
IndexedDB is a low-level API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data, including files/blobs. This API uses indexes to enable high-performance searches of this data. While web storage is useful for storing smaller amounts of data, it is less useful for storing larger amounts of structured data. IndexedDB provides a solution. IndexedDB is a transactional database system, like an SQL-based Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). However, unlike SQL-based RDBMSes, which use fixed-column tables, IndexedDB is a JavaScript-based object-oriented database. IndexedDB lets you store and retrieve objects that are indexed with a key; any objects supported by the structured clone algorithm can be stored. You need to specify the database schema, open a connection to your database, and then retrieve and update data within a series of transactions. Like most web storage solutions, IndexedDB follows the same-origin policy.
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Mozilla
Founded: 2005
United States
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_API
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