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Drizzle ORM

Type-safe SQL builder and ORM for TypeScript. Zero runtime overhead, honest schema migrations, bring-your-own-DB.

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Drizzle is the ORM choice for TypeScript teams who got burned by Prisma's generated client, memory footprint, or migration friction. The SQL builder gives you typed queries that read like SQL, the schema is defined in plain TypeScript, and migrations are generated via drizzle-kit without the Prisma-style hidden engine binary. It has first-class support for Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, and edge runtimes including Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge. Pair it with Neon or Supabase Postgres and you get a serverless, type-safe database layer with none of the runtime surprises. For anyone starting a new TypeScript backend in 2026, Drizzle is the default choice.

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Drizzle ORM at a glance

Last verified October 17, 2026

Pricing: Drizzle ORM - free and open source (Apache-2.0)
drizzle-kit - free and open source (MIT)
Install: npm i drizzle-orm@rc pg dotenv
npm i -D drizzle-kit@rc tsx @types/pg
Models: Not an AI tool: a TypeScript ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL, and CockroachDB, with drivers for Neon, Supabase, Vercel Postgres, PlanetScale, Turso, Cloudflare D1 and Durable Objects, Bun SQL, PGLite, Expo SQLite, and more. You set the dialect in drizzle.config.ts and pick the driver by its drizzle-orm import, for example drizzle-orm/node-postgres.
Recent changes: Oct 8drizzle-orm 0.45.4 fixes postgres-js not using prepared queries on an explicit .prepare(name).
Sep 21drizzle-orm 0.45.3 adds a Netlify DB driver.
Sep 21drizzle-kit 0.31.11 warns about silent migration skips during drizzle-kit check.

Sources: orm.drizzle.team, Get started with PostgreSQL, GitHub releases, drizzle-team/drizzle-orm

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