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I think there is another very good reason to not use a relational database. You want to build a prototype really, really fast and your data model and organization is gonna be changing constantly. In my experience I have been able to prototype applications much faster using NoSQL solutions. I think a good approach is to "sketch" your app with NoSQL and once things start to stabilize move to an RDBMS.

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This is what tooling is for: Define your entities, and generate a wrapper around a datastructure is for, just like you would do with Doctrine and PHP.

Change your entity? Regenerate the wrapper and generate a migration.

Problem still is: Nobody is writing tooling for WebSQL. Everybody just seems to automatically grab NoSQL, throwing away 30 years of built up software developing knowledge, including the golden rules of Database Normalisation: Don't duplicate your data, and compartmentalize.

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