SurrealDB can run embedded directly inside web browsers using IndexedDB
Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock · Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock · Mar 28, 2023 · at 7:37
Tobie Morgan Hitchcock, co-founder of SurrealDB, describes the database engine's browser integration features at Data Driven NYC.
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“Effectively, SurrealDB runs as an embedded database or in the cloud, but it enables us also to run directly in the browser in an embedded way on top of IndexDB.”
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