It's a bit much to call IndexedDB "worthless". You can asynchronously store/access large amounts of indexed JS objects. That's a huge win, despite the fact that

It's a bit much to call IndexedDB "worthless". You can asynchronously store/access large amounts of indexed JS objects. That's a huge win, despite the fact that I agree the IndexedDB API is not ideal. you cant build WebSQL on top of IndexedDB. I don't see why you couldn't build Web SQL on top of IndexedDB. Nobody's done it and it would be a ton of work, but it should be possible. I'd like to be able to use HTML APIs WITHOUT a framework. You can use the IndexedDB API directly. It's not that hard. It's just overkill for something like localForage that is only doing very simple data storage and retrieval. Thank you Mozilla. It wasn't just Mozilla. Microsoft deserves much of the credit/blame, since they were also in the anti-Web SQL and pro-IndexedDB camp. And Google quickly came to agree with them, even though they had implemented Web SQL previously.