Indexed Database API

E242840

Client-side storage technology Web API

The Indexed Database API is a low-level web browser API that enables client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data, including files and blobs, with powerful indexing and querying capabilities.

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All labels observed (14)

Label	Occurrences
IndexedDB	8
IndexedDB API	4
Indexed Database API canonical	2
IDBCursor	1
IDBFactory	1
IDBIndex	1
IDBKeyRange	1
IDBObjectStore	1
IDBOpenDBRequest	1
IDBRequest	1
IDBVersionChangeEvent	1
Indexed Database API 1.0	1
Indexed Database API 2.0	1
window.indexedDB	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2175080 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Indexed Database API
Context triple: [Storage Standard, relatedTo, Indexed Database API]

A. IDB
IDB is an acronym commonly used for the Industrial Development Board, a body focused on promoting and facilitating industrial and economic development.
B. SQLite
SQLite is a lightweight, self-contained, serverless SQL database engine widely embedded in applications, operating systems, and devices.
C. RocksDB
RocksDB is a high-performance, embeddable key–value store developed by Facebook, optimized for fast storage on flash and solid-state drives using a Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM) architecture.
D. ColumnStore
ColumnStore is a columnar storage engine for MariaDB designed to support scalable, high-performance analytics and data warehousing workloads.
E. AVOS Systems
AVOS Systems was a technology company co-founded by YouTube’s creators that focused on developing and managing online consumer web services and social bookmarking platforms.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Indexed Database API
Target entity description: The Indexed Database API is a low-level web browser API that enables client-side storage of significant amounts of structured data, including files and blobs, with powerful indexing and querying capabilities.

A. IDB
IDB is an acronym commonly used for the Industrial Development Board, a body focused on promoting and facilitating industrial and economic development.
B. SQLite
SQLite is a lightweight, self-contained, serverless SQL database engine widely embedded in applications, operating systems, and devices.
C. RocksDB
RocksDB is a high-performance, embeddable key–value store developed by Facebook, optimized for fast storage on flash and solid-state drives using a Log-Structured Merge-Tree (LSM) architecture.
D. ColumnStore
ColumnStore is a columnar storage engine for MariaDB designed to support scalable, high-performance analytics and data warehousing workloads.
E. AVOS Systems
AVOS Systems was a technology company co-founded by YouTube’s creators that focused on developing and managing online consumer web services and social bookmarking platforms.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (66)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Client-side storage technology ⓘ Web API ⓘ
accessibleVia	window.indexedDB ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API
alsoKnownAs	IndexedDB ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API
competesWith	Web Storage API ⓘ localStorage ⓘ sessionStorage ⓘ
designedFor	Complex querying with indexes ⓘ Storing significant amounts of data ⓘ Structured data storage ⓘ
enables	Complex search over local data ⓘ Offline-first web applications ⓘ Rich client-side data models ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	Event-driven ⓘ Low-level API ⓘ Non-relational ⓘ Origin-based data isolation ⓘ Persistent storage ⓘ Transactional ⓘ
hasConcept	Cursor ⓘ Database ⓘ Event-based callbacks ⓘ Index ⓘ Key generator ⓘ Key path ⓘ Object store ⓘ Request ⓘ Transaction ⓘ Versionchange transaction ⓘ
hasInterface	IDBCursor ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBDatabase ⓘ IDBFactory ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBIndex ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBKeyRange ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBObjectStore ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBOpenDBRequest ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBRequest ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API IDBTransaction ⓘ IDBVersionChangeEvent ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API
hasVersion	Indexed Database API 1.0 ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API Indexed Database API 2.0 ⓘ linked to: Indexed Database API
implementedIn	Web browsers ⓘ
partOf	Open Web Platform ⓘ
relatedTo	Cache API ⓘ linked to: Cache Storage API File API ⓘ Service Workers ⓘ
standardizedBy	W3C Web Applications Working Group ⓘ linked to: Web Applications Working Group World Wide Web Consortium ⓘ
supportedBy	Google Chrome ⓘ Microsoft Edge ⓘ Mozilla Firefox ⓘ Safari ⓘ
supports	Asynchronous operations ⓘ Cursors for iterating over records ⓘ Indexes for efficient querying ⓘ Indexes on data ⓘ Key ranges for queries ⓘ Key-value storage ⓘ Storing blobs ⓘ Storing files ⓘ Synchronous operations in Web Workers ⓘ Transactions ⓘ Versioned databases ⓘ
usedFor	Client-side storage of structured data ⓘ Offline web application data storage ⓘ Storing large amounts of data in the browser ⓘ

How these facts were elicited