what's the difference between cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 and cordova-sqlite-storage?

Question

In this tutorial to use SQLite with PouchDB , the cordova plugin used is cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 . Meanwhile in another tutorial to use SQLite in Ionic , the cordova plugin used is cordova-sqlite-storage .

What's actually the difference between the two plugins?

Is it possible to use cordova-sqlite-storage with PouchDB instead of cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 ?

And is it possible to use cordova-sqlite-plugin-2 when I want to work with Ionic 5 Native SQLite plugin (as the 2nd tutorial)?

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UPDATE :

I tried creating an app that uses PouchDB and I installed cordova-sqlite-storage plugin instead of cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 because I want to use Ionic Native SQLite at the same time. When the app launches, I get an error as below:

ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): {"status":500,"name":"web_sql_went_bad","message":"unknown","reason":"Invalid database handle"}
    at resolvePromise (zone-evergreen.js:797:1)
    at resolvePromise (zone-evergreen.js:754:1)
    at zone-evergreen.js:858:1
    at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (zone-evergreen.js:391:1)
    at Object.onInvokeTask (core.js:34182:1)
    at ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (zone-evergreen.js:390:1)
    at Zone.runTask (zone-evergreen.js:168:1)

I have also installed pouchdb-adapter-cordova-sqlite in my project. According to pouchdb-adapter-cordova-sqlite , it should work with cordova-sqlite-storage as well as stated;

PouchDB adapter using native Cordova SQLite as its backing store. It works with any one of the following Cordova plugins:

• Cordova-sqlite-storage
• cordova-plugin-sqlite-2
• cordova-plugin-websql

Why did I get that error when I switched to using cordova-sqlite-storage ?

Answer 1

Make sure to have only ONE of the plugins.

The error that I got seems to be caused by both plugins existing inside the package.json . I thought I've removed it by using the ionic cordova plugin rm cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 but when I removed and added the platform again, and run ionic cordova run android -l , the error still showed up and inside the package.json, apparently cordova-plugin-sqlite-2 was still available.

Checked inside the config.xml and removed it from there, removed and added the platform, error disappeared.