As far as I can tell, it's VASTLY more capable than all of these new options. It has full-text search, all sorts of query optimizations, different storage backends in both the browser and server, and more.
https://rxdb.info/rx-storage-pouchdb.html
My point/question still stands though - rxdb seems to be vastly more capable than all of the new tools that get all the attention. Very peculiar
pouchdb is definitiely the OG local first database, and it inspired rxdb and was the core of it for a long time. it has definitely flaws mainly the developer ergonomics and not very up to date and non homogenic ecosystem. my feeling is non of these issues were the reaason rxdb parted ways, they could just have decided to > contribute < by fixing them and improving, but that would not have allowed them to create moat that they can enforce users switching to pro feautures with.