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Prisma Client is an auto-generated, type-safe and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ORM for Node.js that's tailored to your data. Supports PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite & MongoDB databases.
Prisma Client JS is an auto-generated query builder that enables type-safe database access and reduces boilerplate. You can use it as an alternative to traditional ORMs such as Sequelize, TypeORM or SQL query builders like knex.js.
It is part of the Prisma ecosystem. Prisma provides database tools for data access, declarative data modeling, schema migrations and visual data management. Learn more in the main prisma repository or read the documentation.
Follow one of these guides to get started with Prisma Client JS:
Alternatively you can explore the ready-to-run examples (REST, GraphQL, gRPC, plain JavaScript and TypeScript demos, ...) or watch the demo videos (1-2 min per video).
Refer to our contribution guidelines and Code of Conduct for contributors.
Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, and Microsoft SQL Server. It features solid transaction support, relations, eager and lazy loading, read replication, and more. Compared to @prisma/client, Sequelize has been around for longer and has a wider adoption, but Prisma offers a more modern approach with a focus on type safety and ease of use.
TypeORM is an ORM that can run in Node.js, Browser, Cordova, PhoneGap, Ionic, React Native, NativeScript, Expo, and Electron platforms and can be used with TypeScript and JavaScript (ES5, ES6, ES7, ES8). It's heavily influenced by other ORMs, such as Hibernate, Doctrine, and Entity Framework. TypeORM provides a similar level of abstraction as @prisma/client but with a different API and philosophy, focusing more on the data-mapper pattern.
Knex.js is a 'batteries included' SQL query builder for Postgres, MSSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite3, Oracle, and Amazon Redshift designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use. It provides the building blocks for setting up a database schema and writing queries. While Knex doesn't offer the same level of abstraction or type safety as @prisma/client, it is a powerful query builder that's been widely used in the Node.js community.
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Prisma Client is an auto-generated, type-safe and modern JavaScript/TypeScript ORM for Node.js that's tailored to your data. Supports PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite & MongoDB databases.
The npm package @prisma/client receives a total of 3,792,776 weekly downloads. As such, @prisma/client popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @prisma/client demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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