Developing a HTML5 offline storage solution for iOS/Android in 2011

Question

The problem:

I need a device agnostic (e.g. HTML5) solution for storing and querying 250,000+ rows of data offline on a phone or tablet type device (e.g

Answer 1

I would checkout CouchBase Lite. It's a near full featured implementation of CouchDB that runs on Android and iOS.

iOS

Android

If you wrapped your App in something like PhoneGap you could create native HTML 5 apps for both platforms and you'd only have to do a tiny bit of Android/iOS specific programming to implement CouchDB.

Pros:

• Fast View engine for querying across many rows of data.
• Dirt simple and powerful replication support baked in.

Cons:

• Key-Value Store - It'll take some time to get used to.