Web SQL Database
Web SQL Database is a web page API for storing data in databases that can be queried using a variant of SQL.
The API is supported by Google Chrome, Opera, and the Android Browser.
The W3C Web Applications Working Group ceased working on the specification in November 2010, citing a lack of independent implementations as the reason the specification could not move forward to become a W3C Recommendation.
Mozilla Corporation were one of the major voices behind the break-up of negotiations and deprecation of the standard, while at the same time being the main proponents behind an 'alternative storage' standard, IndexedDB.
