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Yeah but a key value system lacks all the really good things about SQL. And locally with sqlite you don't really have to worry about latency, so you should be able to just get atomicity and consistency on the thread. This shouldn't be a lot to ask from an embedded web DB. I think as with other standards bickering, ten years from now something (Canvas API) will come out that more or less replicates the technology that…
Additional issue was that to become a standard, there would have to be at least two different proof-of-concept implementations. That would mean, someone would have to write a SQLite compatible database, that is not SQLite.
If it hasn't been done by the "rewrite it in Rust" crowd yet, it probably will eventually.