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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.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 19 people: 4 stories, 15 comments · first 2014-11-05 · latest 2022-01-17

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  1. Pro and Contro vs existing similar projects? example https://github.com/google/lovefield
    comment by fbn79 · 2022-01-17 · in TinyBase: A JavaScript library for structured state
  2. …together in our application layer using JS 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. …db in javascript called lovefield, which was motivated primarily by the deprecation of WebSQL: https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/dd/00_i...
    comment by simon_weber · 2021-02-11 · in Google could have killed Facebook with the flick of a switch
  4. …Not exactly SQLite and I'm not sure what its status is now but might be of interest. [1]: https://github.com/google/lovefield
    comment by inbx0 · 2020-11-06 · in SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript
  5. Personal favorite: https://github.com/google/lovefield Thin layer on top of indexdb for local persistence. Lovefield is a relational database written in pure JavaScript. It provides SQL-like syntax and works cross-browser (currently…
    comment by jacquesm · 2020-09-02 · in Lesser-known Web APIs
  6. …to deal with. (Lovefield powers GMail Inbox if I'm not mistaken.) https://github.com/arthurhsu/rdb https://github.com/google/lovefield
    comment by ash · 2018-09-12 · in WatermelonDB, a database for React and React Native apps
  7. …be built on top of IndexedDb not exactly sqlite-lite, but it's sqlish and it's build on top of IDB: https://github.com/google/lovefield
    comment by jgj · 2018-01-27 · in Extensions in Firefox 59
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    Lovefield, a relational database for web apps, works cross-browser
    story by tosh · 2017-05-10 · 17 comments
  9. WebSQL is deprecated or something like that. Some people from Google have developed https://github.com/google/lovefield on top of IndexedDB to replace it.
    comment by fiatjaf · 2017-05-09 · in SQL Notebook
  10. If any of you are serious about using IndexedDB, please consider: https://github.com/google/lovefield Explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1AUIq8GA1k
    comment by ralusek · 2016-10-27 · in What’s new in IndexedDB 2.0?
  11. If you're interested in a websql-like API, take a look at lovefield: https://github.com/google/lovefield -- it's a very websql-like api and looks pretty good.
    comment by elliotf · 2016-10-26 · in What’s new in IndexedDB 2.0?
  12. Would be interesting to see how this benchmarks against the in-memory db of lovefield ( https://github.com/google/lovefield )
    comment by timeu · 2015-09-10 · in SQLite compiled into JavaScript via Emscripten
  13. …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…
    comment by frik · 2015-05-31 · in Show HN: SheetSQL – SQL Engine inside Google Sheet
  14. This was presented at I/O this week: https://github.com/google/lovefield
    comment by gfodor · 2015-05-31 · in Show HN: SheetSQL – SQL Engine inside Google Sheet
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    Lovefield: A Cross-Browser SQL-Like Query Engine from Google
    story by antoaravinth · 2015-05-12 · 1 comment
  16. https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/dd/04_c... Lovefield has an in-memory row cache, which is conceptually a big map of row ids to rows (and that is why Lovefield has unique row ids across the board). Currently the cache…
    comment by streptomycin · 2014-11-25 · in Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB
  17. …a declarative language such as SQL is actually translated to an execution plan behind the scenes: https://github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/dd/05_q...
    comment by xtacy · 2014-11-25 · in Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB
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    Lovefield: Cross-browser, SQL-like, relational query engine on top of IndexedDB
    story by peter637 · 2014-11-25 · 11 comments
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    Lovefield – A relational query engine for IndexedDB
    story by kinlan · 2014-11-05 · 0 comments