10 alternatives to prisma/orm

prisma/orm — The Prisma ORM: write your application in TypeScript with human-readable queries instead of SQL. Host your database on Prisma Postgres and your app on Prisma Compute. (47,658 stars, Apache-2.0, database, analytics, auth).

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The alternatives in detail

• typeorm/typeorm
  TypeScript & JavaScript ORM for Node.js — supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, and more.
  score 8.3/10 · MIT permissive · 36,664 stars · 437 components · search them · alternatives
• drizzle-team/drizzle-orm
  ORM
  score 7.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 36,140 stars · 623 components · search them · alternatives
• bytebase/dbhub
  Token conscious database MCP server for Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB, SQLite.
  score 6.2/10 · MIT permissive · 3,790 stars · 154 components · search them
• kysely-org/kysely
  A type-safe TypeScript SQL query builder
  score 8.4/10 · MIT permissive · 14,306 stars · 319 components · search them
• doctrine/dbal
  Doctrine Database Abstraction Layer
  score 7.6/10 · MIT permissive · 9,700 stars · 299 components · search them
• sequelize/sequelize
  Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB, DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.
  score 8.3/10 · MIT permissive · 30,352 stars · 304 components · search them · alternatives
• uptrace/bun
  SQL-first Golang ORM
  score 5.7/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 5,004 stars · 115 components · search them
• transact-rs/sqlx
  🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
  score 8.2/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 17,596 stars · 344 components · search them
• manoss96/onlymaps
  A Python micro-ORM
  score 4.8/10 · MIT permissive · 338 stars · 11 components · search them
• ebean-orm/ebean
  Ebean ORM
  score 4.7/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,532 stars · 1,324 components · search them

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