Goal was to create a poc driver than can be compiled wasm native node addon (to be faster than the other node firebird implementations).

Wasm was dropped because building openssl was tedious, but it also looks like it's slower than native node addon (ref. 1 ref. 2).

Might revisit this project later to complete the driver.

TODO

• Make it possible to run a mvp select query, and read the response
• Run valgrind to fix potentional memory leaks
• Add AFL to fuzz the project, especially the message decoding logic has to be fuzzed.
• Complete the implementation ?

Dependencies

We use cheat.h for testing, and OpenSSL for BigNum + hashes.

Speed

Plain c++

TIMEFORMAT='%3lR' /usr/bin/time -p  ./firebird_cli
real 0.03
user 0.00
sys 0.00

The c++ running as a native node addon (from javascript)

TIMEFORMAT='%3lR' /usr/bin/time -p  node test.js
real 0.07
user 0.04
sys 0.01

Reference client (javascript)

TIMEFORMAT='%3lR' /usr/bin/time -p  node ./ref/node-firebird/example.js
real 0.30
user 0.12
sys 0.01

References used

• node-firebird driver was used as reference since it was important that this driver had the same behavior.