Evaluating IndexedDB performance on web browsers

HTML5 is the latest markup language that includes features to allow developers to do most of the production work throughout the browsers without relying too much on third-party add-ons. HTML5 is always accompanied with JavaScript that gives those browsers the ability to perform the program logic locally. IndexedDB is a NoSQL database supported by HTML5 that is capable of storing JSON objects. In this paper, we conducted a comparative analysis of IndexedDB performance on four renowned browsers, these are namely: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera. IndexedDB operations are explored in each browser and a statistical analysis is conducted to compare the performance of these operations on each browser. Results show the lead for Internet Explorer with an overall performance of 96.43%, followed by Mozilla Firefox with an overall performance of 64.29%, then Opera with an overall performance of 57.14%, and finally Google Chrome with 32.14%.