Prisma
TypeScript ORM with a schema-first workflow. Prisma Client gives full type safety; Prisma Migrate handles migrations. Works with Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB.
Prisma is the most widely used TypeScript ORM. You define your schema in a single .prisma file, run prisma generate, and get a fully typed client. Prisma Migrate creates SQL migrations from schema diffs. The query API is ergonomic and the type inference is excellent. Trade-offs: the runtime is heavier than Drizzle, cold starts on serverless were historically slow (the Rust-free engine fixes most of that), and raw SQL escapes the abstraction. Still the default for many TypeScript backends.
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