“Fastest database on the planet” sound ambitious. Unrelated: I added CMake build and a Windows port for nostril couple months ago, submitted a pull request , but got no response (also adds the secp256k1 source, but that can be taken out) 
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Add build with CMake and Windows with Visual Studio by pedro-vicente · Pull Request #30 · jb55/nostril
Added a CMakeLists.txt to allow build with CMake (tested Mac, Linux, Windows)
To build
./build.cmake.sh