How is indexedDB conceptually different from HTML5 local storage?

Question

1. Both indexedDB and local storage are key value stores. What is the advantage of having two key/value stores?
2. indexedDB is asynchronous, but joins (the most ti

Answer 1

Adding to the anwser of robertc, indexedDB knows 'ranges' so you can search and retrieve all records that start with 'ab' and end with abd' to find 'abc' etc.