I feel like there’s some missing context here: the late 2000s/early 2010s were also when the nosql craze was really taking off: Cassandra was open sourced in 2008, MongoDB came out in 2009 and spawned the “MEAN stack” (remember that?)
Using SQL was extremely unfashionable then, so it’s no surprise that developers at Mozilla/Oracle (and even Google and Microsoft) were not keen on adding a sql stack.
I really think this was more about crippling the browser experience to benefit native apps and P2P apps. Supposedly Sqlite, which is widely revered as one of the best engineered pieces of software maybe ever made, doesn't have an "alternative implementation" so it can't be used, but some guy at ORACLE comes up with a lackluster nosql solution and we're all good?! Not buying it...
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[ 2.2 ms ] story [ 12.3 ms ] threadBack then, the latest plot twist in local storage hadn’t happened: https://www.theregister.com/2020/03/26/apple_relax_were_not_...
Using SQL was extremely unfashionable then, so it’s no surprise that developers at Mozilla/Oracle (and even Google and Microsoft) were not keen on adding a sql stack.