Performance is a whole other ball of wax. A comparison can be done, but you have to set context first with regards to the size and shape of the data set, networ

Performance is a whole other ball of wax. A comparison can be done, but you have to set context first with regards to the size and shape of the data set, network conditions, filtering/sorting features, etc. You'd really want to factor in database bandwidth limitations at that point, as any fully client-side table library will need to load all the data first. My primary point was on the simplicity of the stack and ease of maintaining. I would expect a performance gain in most cases as well, though there are definitely cases where client-side would perform better.