PouchDB VS Dexie.js

I have used pouchdb as an embedded db for electron - API and performance were not the best, but that was the price to pay for the requirements.

I love PouchDB, it's incredible, however I fear its a project that is loosing it momentum (I do think it has pick up a little over the last year though).

It has a very aggressive stale bot closing issues (this search shows 700 closed stale issues https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues?q=is%3Aissue+stale...), some which I really don't think it should have. It gives the impression of a very active but stable platform that I don't necessarily think is accurate.

For example I found a hash collision bug while working on a side project, the issue was closed as stale (https://github.com/pouchdb/pouchdb/issues/8257)

Fortunately, PouchDB is still maintained, and recently they've shipped v7.3.0 🎉. Much appreciated the community effort.

Sucks that couch doesn't work well for sync :( I was hoping that I could set up sync between my laptop and phone without a server since those are the two primary devices I use. Is this the issue with deletion you were talking about?

Thankfully the community helped me figure this out. You can read about detail on the issue here at github .

Maybe PouchDB.

The word on the street is that https://github.com/rhashimoto/wa-sqlite is nearly production ready, closing in on the neat 1.0.0 release, with its IDBBatchAtomic engine highly recommended at https://www.powersync.com/blog/sqlite-persistence-on-the-web. You can try out the benchmark https://rhashimoto.github.io/wa-sqlite/demo/benchmarks.html.

And the other contestant is Dexie, stable https://dexie.org/.

If you were to branch into a new venture today, which one would you pick? And why?

That said, there are some great ways to wrap IndexedDB to make it easier to work with. Since I’m writing this article I’ll toss in my local-first framework Verdant, which can be used without the sync features as a standalone IndexedDB-powered database with a type-safe schema and deployable data migrations. For a lighter-weight approach, maybe check out Dexie.

Using IndexedDB. I have heard its pretty cumbersome to use. There are wrappers like Dexie.js but I am not sure if it works seamlessly with Tauri or if it is the correct thing for my use case.

I use IndexedDB, specifically the idb library (https://github.com/jakearchibald/idb), or Dexie.js (https://dexie.org/) if you are more novice. This works great for large sets of data. For smaller amounts, Chrome Storage API will do.

To make things easier, Dexie.js provides a straightforward and simplified process of creating databases, storing data, updating data and database migrations, etc., over the top of indexedDB.

If you are just looking for a solution for your IndexedDB needs I find Dexie to be one of the best but depending on other needs, the others in the list are also good to consider.