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Pick up to four tools and compare adoption, momentum and maintenance at a glance. The crown marks the leader in each row.

Decorator-based ORM with Active Record and Data Mapper patterns; long the NestJS default.

Schema-first TypeScript ORM with a generated type-safe client and migrations; v7 dropped the Rust engine.

Lightweight, SQL-like TypeScript ORM with zero dependencies that works well on serverless and edge.

Schema-based ODM for MongoDB with validation, middleware and population.

Head to head

Metric	TypeORM	Prisma	Drizzle ORM	Mongoose
Stars	36.7k	47.7k	36.3k	27.4k
Weekly downloads	6.7M	26.1M	49.3M	8.9M
Download growth	+16%	+35%	+103%	+11%
Popularity score	83/100	88/100	89/100	83/100
Forks	6.7k	2.6k	1.8k	4.1k
Open issues	739	2.8k	2.1k	197
Last commit	4d ago	today	1d ago	4d ago
Latest version	1.1.2	8.0.0-rc.33	0.45.4	9.12.1
License	MIT	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0	MIT
First released	2016	2019	2021	2010
Signals	None	Popular	Trending	Popular
Listed in	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)

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Decorator-based ORM with Active Record and Data Mapper patterns; long the NestJS default.

Schema-first TypeScript ORM with a generated type-safe client and migrations; v7 dropped the Rust engine.

Lightweight, SQL-like TypeScript ORM with zero dependencies that works well on serverless and edge.

Schema-based ODM for MongoDB with validation, middleware and population.

Metric	TypeORM	Prisma	Drizzle ORM	Mongoose
Stars	36.7k	47.7k	36.3k	27.4k
Weekly downloads	6.7M	26.1M	49.3M	8.9M
Download growth	+16%	+35%	+103%	+11%
Popularity score	83/100	88/100	89/100	83/100
Forks	6.7k	2.6k	1.8k	4.1k
Open issues	739	2.8k	2.1k	197
Last commit	4d ago	today	1d ago	4d ago
Latest version	1.1.2	8.0.0-rc.33	0.45.4	9.12.1
License	MIT	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0	MIT
First released	2016	2019	2021	2010
Signals	None	Popular	Trending	Popular
Listed in	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)	Backend › ORMs & Query Builders (JS/TS)

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