Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-19
Minnow, a SQL Engine Living in the Browser
Minnow is a columnar SQL database that runs in the browser over immutable snapshots, using IndexedDB for durable storage.
Why it surfacedThis is more than a browser demo: Minnow describes its own parser, planner, optimizer, and vectorized executor, with joins, window functions, full-text search, and bounded-memory execution. It also offers public documentation, a console, and benchmarks—an unusually concrete arrival in the browser-database space.
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The Song Resumes After the Story
August 19’s newborn domains include a Hawaiʻi road-trip radio that resumes each song after a GPS-triggered story, an offline Chattanooga recovery map, a 100 KiB operating system running Doom, and an archive of 169,588 Discord roleplay messages.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-19 Domain Arrivals issue.