Introducing @stoolap/node: A Native Node.js Driver for the Rust-Based Stoolap Database

I've been working on Stoolap for a while now, an embedded SQL database written in pure Rust. It started as a Go project, grew into something much bigger, and recently hit a point where I thought: okay, this thing is fast, but how do people actually use it outside of Rust?

The answer, for a lot of developers, is Node.js. So I built @stoolap/node, a native driver powered by NAPI-RS that gives you direct access to Stoolap from JavaScript and TypeScript.

No HTTP server in between. No serialization overhead. Just your Node.js process talking directly to the database engine.

The performance difference is substantial. In my benchmarks, @stoolap/node is about 2-3x faster than the HTTP approach for simple queries, and the gap widens for more complex operations.

What makes Stoolap interesting is that it's not just another SQLite wrapper. It's a completely new database engine built from scratch in Rust, with a focus on being embeddable, fast, and easy to use.