At the moment this is an experiemental project. Grab the latest node (39e6d95 or better) and do node-waf configure build h2. Getting Started You'll need postgres to run this. Here's the easy way to do this locally: wget http://wwwmaster.postgresql.org/redir/198/h/source/v8.4.2/postgresql-8.4.2.tar.gz tar -zxf postgresql-8.4.2.tar.gz cd postgresql-8.4.2 ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/postgres-8.4.2 && make && make install cd $HOME/local/postgres-8.4.2 bin/initdb ./data bin/postgres -D ./data You'll probably want to add $HOME/local/postgres-8.4.2/bin to your PATH environment variable. export PATH=$HOME/local/postgres-8.4.2/bin:$PATH And puts few things into the database createdb test echo "CREATE TABLE test (a int, b int); INSERT INTO test VALUES (1, 2);" | psql -d test cd ~/src/node_postgres node-waf configure node-waf build node test.js