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by hcentelles 4527 days ago
I'm wondering if anyone here has real experience with node-webkit, I'm looking into it to implement a desktop offline version of my app but I'm not sure if their offline DB layer is capable of handle data in the hundreds of megabytes order.
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jchrisa 4527 days ago
Couchbase Lite is available for Mac, and has JSON storage and offline sync. Of course it's all open source. http://mobile.couchbase.com
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anonyfox 4527 days ago
you may ship your app with any database you want. Easiest to use is a pure-JS datastore, like https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb or sqlite. I prefer NeDB, it should work just fine for <= 1GB of data.

If you want to use a non-embedded database, you have to build your own installer, though.

The solutions offered by the chromium part (localStorage, indexedDB) could be worth a look, too. But i have no experience with them when using bigger amounts of data.

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