Using the HTML5 Database to store tweets

  • Safari and Chrome both support HTML5 Web SQL Databases
  • Safari will allow the Database to grow by asking the user for more space (if needed).
  • Chrome seems to have a rather small storage limit
  • Performance is improved when accessing the timeline of a user since it can be accessed from the database (no server access)
  • Searching the tweets in the database is very fast but neither browser seems to support full text searches
  • In testing it has been handy to have access to older tweets