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IndexedDB used to be slow, but is it still yet? Not so sure, performance does not seem that bad (see http://reyesr.github.io/html5-storage-benchmark/ ) Do you have some benchmark that shows it is indeed slow as of today?

Agreed! IDB is simpler in some ways, but having a real relational database is a lot better for many advanced applications — and also can be more easily used for porting to different platforms, since you can run SQLite on any native platform

Wanting a specified query language for a database API isn't really an excuse IMHO. (and if it really were just "a bit of work", one has to ask why the proposers then didn't bother to just do that. As cool as sqlite is, tying browsers to a specific version of it seems questionable)