prisma

Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB

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EDITOR'S TAKE

The polished ORM. ~38k stars. Best developer experience for relational data, declarative schema, generated client. Trade-off: cold starts on serverless are slower than Drizzle, and the abstraction can fight you on complex queries.

Use this if

Your team values DX over performance and most queries are CRUD on relational data.

Skip if

You are running on Edge or Vercel functions where cold start matters — Drizzle is faster.