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Interesting that it could be done at all - but having a hard time coming up with any real world use cases for this. Are there any?

• throwaway92374 3y ago
  It can persist data to indexedDB, so web applications can use it if they want a more flexible alternative
  • creatonez 3y ago
    That's neat, I wonder what the overhead is though.
• tjelen 3y ago
  Code testing is a big one for me. I'm currently using in-memory sqlite for tests and I'm often running into differences between sqlite and postgres (default values, JSON handling, etc). This could allow me to use the real thing without running a full Docker instance.
• amcaskill 3y ago
  I think performance and cost are the big motivators here. I work on a web framework for building data apps like reports and dashboards, and we use duckDB’s WASM runtime for interactions (e.g when a user changes a date range filter). It’s really fast, and you don’t spend snowflake credits.
• iansinnott 3y ago
  No one using postgres in the cloud is going to use this as an alternative, but there are at least two use cases where this could be very useful: - You want your app to be local first (snappy, great offline support, etc) but sync data to a server. This is the ElectricSQL use case. - You want a serious data store in-browser. SQLite via wasm already fits this use case, but it's nice to have options.