They should have just agreed on a simple subset of SQL instead of going NoSQL, but apparently that wasn't good enough for them, waiting a decade more for something to store data in is probably better.
I personally love the concept of NoSQL, it's just that IndexedDB needs a few more years, which means it will probably even miss IE10.
I have read the comments in Mozilla's thread http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-... they clearly don't give a damn about what the users want.
They should have just agreed on a simple subset of SQL instead of going NoSQL, but apparently that wasn't good enough for them, waiting a decade more for something to store data in is probably better.
I personally love the concept of NoSQL, it's just that IndexedDB needs a few more years, which means it will probably even miss IE10.