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Prisma

prisma/orm

Popular

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

Drizzle ORM

drizzle-team/drizzle-orm

Trending

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

TypeORM

typeorm/typeorm

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

Mongoose

Automattic/mongoose

Popular

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

MikroORM

mikro-orm/mikro-orm

Data Mapper ORM with Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns for Node.js.

Sequelize

sequelize/sequelize

Legacy

Veteran promise-based ORM for Postgres, MySQL and more; widely deployed but slow-moving (v7 long in alpha).

Knex.js

knex/knex

Legacy

Classic SQL query builder and migration runner; still common but superseded by typed builders.