Facebook announced the availability of an osquery developer kit for Windows. The port presented several technical challenges, which Facebook describes as ‘opportunity to unify endpoint defense’ Facebook says the port was worth the effort to get it running on Windows. Some code that builds on clang/gcc just wont build on Visual Studio, we also had to fix some bugs and make substitutions, like using linenoise-ng instead of GNU readline. The tool allows an organization to treat its infrastructure as a database, turning operating system information into a format that can be queried using SQL.”]
Source: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2016/09/27/windows-network-security-now-easier-with-osquery/