Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast

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Stoolap/Node: A Native Node.js Driver That's Surprisingly Fast(stoolap.io)

20 points bymurat3ok3 hours ago |6 comments

▲ramon15620 minutes ago

Blog post written with an LLM, a project that went Go -> Rust -> Node? Also, is it really native? Does it not bind to your already built Rust tool?

I guess I'm a bit confused but don't want to read AI fuzz further

▲ramon15618 minutes ago

I would like to see the actual test harness. A 100x improvement is do-able (you're trimming features basically) but I would like to see how you tested it

▲z3t41 hour ago

I dont think the micro benchmarks are fair, as it really doesn't matter if something takes 0.01 ms or 0.001 ms even if its 10x faster.

▲pfix43 minutes ago

Until it does ;)

But I still agree - if the benchmark was in memory, Stoolap might be optimized for speed. Sqlite is optimized for persistence, so you have to benchmark on disk and compare how it performs when writes fail.

▲pdyc1 hour ago

interesting, github says works for both olap+oltp but it was for go, does the same apply to rust as well? I want to try it in browser is wasm available somewhere or is there any plan to support it? [Edit] looks like it is available for browser here https://stoolap.io/playground/ i will be trying it with my product this weekend, excited to see how it goes.

▲ignoramous26 minutes ago

> No serialization overhead. Just your Node.js process talking directly ... through native bindings.

NAPI-RS has no serialisation overhead?

▲petesergeant1 hour ago

Stoolap looks pretty interesting, anyone want to share their experience of using it?

▲gomoboo1 hour ago

Never used it but I’ll chime in that the naming choice is unfortunate. For me as an English speaker it collides with stool, a term for excrement.

▲bryanrasmussen2 minutes ago

well I wouldn't pronounce it Stool - ap I would go with Stoo - lap. So people's chosen pronunciations may vary.

▲Aldipower39 minutes ago

So, what's an "ap" then? As a German speaker I am used to the word "stuhl" too. Which means both "stool" and also "chair". So I sit myself on stool every single day!