IndexedDB vs FaunaDB: What are the differences?
IndexedDB: A low-level API for client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data. This API uses indexes to enable high-performance searches of this data. While Web Storage is useful for storing smaller amounts of data, it is less useful for storing larger amounts of structured data; FaunaDB: The database built for serverless, featuring native GraphQL. FaunaDB is a global serverless database that gives you ubiquitous, low latency access to app data, without sacrificing data correctness and scale. It eliminates layers of app code for manually handling data anomalies, security, and scale, creating a friendlier dev experience for you and better app experience for your users.
IndexedDB and FaunaDB can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
Some of the features offered by IndexedDB are:
- Stores key-pair values
- It is not a relational database
- IndexedDB API is mostly asynchronous
On the other hand, FaunaDB provides the following key features:
- Native support for GraphQL and others. Easily access any data with any API. No middleware necessary.
- Access all data via a data model that best suits your needs - relational, document, graph or composite.
- A unique approach to indexing makes it simpler to write efficient queries that scale with your application.
