# \[RELESE\] New ScyllaDB Node.js-RS Driver v0.3.0

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/relese-new-scylladb-node-js-rs-driver-v0-3-0/5258>\
**Category:** Release Notes\
**Created:** [January 29, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/relese-new-scylladb-node-js-rs-driver-v0-3-0/5258 "2026-01-29T13:54:38Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![adespawn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/adespawn/32/1914_2.png) [@adespawn](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/adespawn)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/relese-new-scylladb-node-js-rs-driver-v0-3-0/5258/1 "2026-01-29T13:54:38Z")

</div>

The ScyllaDB team is pleased to announce [nodejs-rs-driver](https://github.com/scylladb/nodejs-rs-driver), a new driver for ScyllaDB for Node.js with support for Typescript. This driver is an overlay over the [ScyllaDB Rust Driver](https://github.com/scylladb/scylla-rust-driver), with the interface based on the [DataStax Node.js Driver](https://github.com/datastax/nodejs-driver). Although optimised for ScyllaDB, the driver is also compatible with [Apache Cassandra®](https://cassandra.apache.org/).

## Current feature support

As of this release:

- Simple, Prepared, and Batch statements
- Asynchronous IO, parallel execution, request pipelining
- Token-aware routing
- Shard-aware and Tablet-aware routing (specific to ScyllaDB)
- CQL binary protocol version 4
- Works with any cluster size
- Both promise and callback-based API
- Row streaming and pipes
- Built-in TypeScript support
- Password authentication
- Configurable load balancing policies
- Error handling, based on the Rust driver

Features that are planned for the driver to become production ready:

- Configurable retry policies
- Faster performance, compared to DataStax Node.js driver
- SSL support
- Migration guide from the DataStax driver

For other planned features, see our [Milestones](https://github.com/scylladb/nodejs-rs-driver/milestones)

## Instalation

You can install the driver through npm:  
`npm i scylladb-driver-alpha`  
[https://www.npmjs.com/package/scylladb-driver-alpha](https://www.npmjs.com/package/scylladb-driver-alpha)  
The current version of the driver is [0.3.0](https://github.com/scylladb/nodejs-rs-driver/releases/tag/v0.3.0)  
(Note that this package name is temporary and may change in the future.)

The current version is not yet production-ready, and only linux x86\_64 architecture is supported, with planned support for other architectures in the future. Support for macOS and ARM architecture is planned in the next release.