local database storage?

[Dower]

Hello everyone,

 

I had an idea for a tool to create game data, like sprites or tiles. I'm going to attempt it in HTML5 and shoot for mobile devices. But I anted to get your thoughts on storage of this data? Since I would be dealing with potentially lots of small images as well as table like data... I suppose the game data can easily be stored as text via json, but should I even consider storing the images a base64 data, instead of binary? Then ultimately, what about storage locally on the device, like combining all the data into something like a a game save file (for transport later)? 

 

I know that indexedDB is not supported on IOS/Safari (so says caniuse.com) ... The one thought I did have was maybe wrapping this idea within PhoneGap and using a wrapper for Sqlite...

 

Let me know your thoughts,

Thanks,

Dower 

 

[xerver]

You could always use lz-string to compress your data and store it in localstorage.

 

http://pieroxy.net/blog/pages/lz-string/index.html

[Dower]

Hey Xerver,

 

Thanks for the sugggestion. That looks pretty interesting. I've been wondering if there were ways to compress local data. 

I was thinking about trying to use Phonegap to communicate with a Sqlite database, but I'm having a hard time getting that to work on the Windows side... I want to see if i can target the Windows side first, since my environment is setup for Windows development...

[Chris]

You may want to take a look at taffy - a JavaScript based NoSQL database: http://www.taffydb.com/

[xerver]

You may want to take a look at taffy - a JavaScript based NoSQL database: http://www.taffydb.com/

 

IS this a memory-only DB? Where does it eventual write to?

[Chris]

Yes, its memory-only. If you want to keep the data anywhere for persistent storage, you either need to write it to localStorage or send it to the server via AJAX.