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AlaSQL.js - JavaScript SQL database for browser and Node.js. Handles both traditional relational tables and nested JSON data (NoSQL). Export, store, and import data from localStorage, IndexedDB, or Excel.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 5 stories, 7 comments · first 2015-09-10 · latest 2025-11-20

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  1. You can leverage SQL on top of IndexedDB by using AlaSQL ( https://github.com/AlaSQL/alasql ) or absurd-sql ( https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql ).
    comment by niutech · 2024-07-02 · in What Happens When You Put a Database in the Browser?
  2. …et al. [1]: https://github.com/jlongster/absurd-sql [2]: https://github.com/google/lovefield [3]: https://github.com/agershun/alasql [4]: https://actualbudget.com/blog/
    comment by vaughan · 2021-09-06 · in Ask HN: What could a modern database do that PostgreSQL and MySQL can't
  3. …[1] https://github.com/blastrain/vitess-sqlparser [2] https://github.com/eatonphil/gosql [3] https://github.com/agershun/alasql/blob/develop/src/alasqlpa... [4] https://github.com/codeschool/sqlite-parser [5]…
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-08-19 · in Let's write a compiler, part 5: A code generator
  4. …VALUES (...), ...` would run out of memory after only a few hundred rows. I ended up switching to https://github.com/agershun/alasql which could handle up to 80MB of data or so. (I haven't yet tested on larger datasets so I don't know the…
    comment by eatonphil · 2021-08-12 · in A future for SQL on the web
  5. For similar results, you can use SQL with IndexedDB running fully client-side: https://github.com/agershun/alasql
    comment by niutech · 2021-05-09 · in Hosting SQLite databases on GitHub Pages or any static file hoster
  6. …used for displaying data as well. There's an app called feathub that does it. Here it is in action: https://github.com/agershun/alasql#miss-a-feature
    comment by benatkin · 2020-07-12 · in Building a self-updating profile README for GitHub
  7. Would be interesting to compare it to AlaSQL ( https://github.com/agershun/alasql ).
    comment by olegp · 2015-09-10 · in Lovefield – A relational database for web apps