I’m in the process of getting the tests passing for the 0.03 release of NIST::NVD::Store::SQLite3 wherein our hero imports the CWE data and cross-indexes it with CVEs and CPEs.

Follow along and suggest some patches. I’m developing on Debian Wheezy, but I would very much like input from devs on other platforms.

http://git.colliertech.org/?p=NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3.git;a=summary

cjac@foxtrot:/tmp$ time git clone http://git.colliertech.org/git/NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3.git
Cloning into 'NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3'...

real    0m32.757s
user    0m0.200s
sys     0m0.088s
cjac@foxtrot:/tmp$ ls NIST-NVD-Store-SQLite3/t/data/
cwec_v2.1.xml  nvdcve-2.0-test.xml

Publish your patches and I’ll fetch them, or you can submit them in udiff format and I’ll review/apply. Thanks for playing along!

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I published an SQLite3 storage back-end to NIST::NVD on the CPAN. It’s pretty quick. About as fast as the DB_File one, but without the down side of being tied to DB_File. It shouldn’t be too difficult to re-factor this code to any DBI-based database. MariaDB anyone?

I know it works on Debian. The nightly CPAN test results should come back shortly and I’ll find out how well it works on other platforms.

The SQL standard leaves a lot of room for different implementations. This is a little demonstration of one of such differences.

SQLite  3.7.4
sqlite> create table t1 (id serial, t time);
sqlite> insert into t1(t) values ('00:05:10');
sqlite> select t,t*1.5 from t1;
00:05:10|0.0
MySQL 5.6.4-m5
mysql> create table t1 (id serial, t time);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> insert into t1(t) values ('00:05:10');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql> select t,t*1.5 from t1;
+----------+-------+
| t        | t*1.5 |
+----------+-------+
| 00:05:10 |   765 |
+----------+-------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

PostgreSQL 9.0.3
test=# create table t1 (id serial, t time);
NOTICE:  CREATE TABLE will create implicit …

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