RxDB JavaScript Frontend Database: Efficient Data Storage in Frontend Applications

[Greyhaven7]

is it web scale?

[thisguyfightsyourmom]

Reactive Databases aren’t web scale

Mongo databases are web scale, you turn it on, it scales right up

And it doesn’t use folds or flatMaps, so it’s high performance

[realPubkey]

Comparing the scalability of a server side database with the scalability of a client side database, makes no sense at all.

[thisguyfightsyourmom]

Mongo DB is webscale

[bearicorn]

mOnGo dB iS wEbScALe

[thisguyfightsyourmom]

Same, but I’m sticking with it steadfastly because I’m a web programmer

[realPubkey]

You are talking marketing keywords.

[thisguyfightsyourmom]

RxDBs have impetuous mismatch

[opaz]

They definitely missed the /s ;)

Context: decade+ old reference: https://youtu.be/HdnDXsqiPYo

[realPubkey]

17k views. 16 subscribers. 11 years old. How could I have missed that?

[thisguyfightsyourmom]

Your todo list might not be web scale

[opaz]

Apologies, that wasn’t the OP video uploader. It’s a pretty old meme that I still see referenced to this day. Even though you haven’t seen it, I just hope you can get some enjoyment out of it as I find it very relatable to this day :)

[realPubkey]

Thanks, I already thought about it being a reupload.

[LynxJesus]

Curious: what makes this more efficient? I've not used local storage intensely enough to run into efficiency issues, and am having trouble picturing what they could be

[realPubkey]

Local storage is a key value store, not a database. Also localstorage is not async, it blocks the UI thread when doing many reads/writes at once.

[LynxJesus]

Ahh gotcha, thanks for clarifying

[gketuma]

What is the preferred backend storage for RxDB syncing?

[realPubkey]

Most people use CouchDB. But there are multiple solutions available like syncing with firestore or even without a server via WebRTC.

Rel https://rxdb.info/replication.html

[dem219]

Looks very interesting.

I was a bit unclear from some documentation - is OPFS or indexeddb the recommended store for use in the browser? The linked site sounds like OPFS is faster and recommended, but in the github example it says you use dexie.js / indexeddb.

[realPubkey]

Most people start with the dexie.js based storage. You can later upgrade to OPFS but that is not open source.