RxDB
A fast, reactive, NoSQL database for JavaScript apps
RxDB launched on January 23, 2023 with 6 votes, #1,725 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
RxDB is an offline-first, NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications like Websites, hybrid Apps, Electron-Apps, PWAs and Node.js. Reactive means that you can subscribe to all state changes like the result of a query or even a single field of a document.
RxDB is a fast, local-first NoSQL-database for JavaScript Applications like Websites, hybrid Apps, Electron-Apps, Progressive Web Apps and Node.js
RxDB is a NoSQL database for JavaScript that runs directly in your app. With a local-first design, it delivers zero-latency queries even offline, and syncs seamlessly with any backend. RxDB's easy-to-use Sync Engine powers realtime synchronization between clients and servers. Either use one of our prebuild replication plugins... ...sync with your custom server by implementing only three simple endpoints . RxDB adopts the local-first approach by storing data locally on the client and managing continuous synchronization. You can even run your app entirely without a backend. We use RxDB because it works across multiple platforms and we need to store of a great deal of data, some users have…from rxdb.info
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