ORM posts
Articles tagged ORM on the Prisma blog: guides, announcements, and updates from the team building Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres.
We closed 330 of your most-requested issues with Prisma ORM 8
Prisma ORM 8 resolves 330 open GitHub issues carrying about 8,922 upvotes, the oldest from 2019: typed JSON, polymorphism, partial unique indexes, PostGIS, pgvector, TypeScript migrations and more.
Prisma ORM Manifesto 2026: Open, Extensible, Collaborative
The five principles behind Prisma ORM 8: an open framework and ecosystem, tools that are safe to delegate, exceptional DX, modern JavaScript, and stewardship.
The new way to use Prisma ORM 8 in NestJS
Prisma ORM 8 replaces the extends-PrismaClient service in NestJS with one shared client and plain query helpers. Scaffold, query, and deploy to Prisma Compute.
Netlify alternatives for a full-stack TypeScript app with Postgres (2026)
Five Netlify alternatives for a full-stack TypeScript app with Postgres: Prisma Compute with Prisma Postgres, Railway, Render, Fly.io, and Vercel with a Marketplace database, compared.
Prisma vs Vercel: where should you build your next TypeScript app?
Prisma vs Vercel compared for TypeScript apps: what each platform provisions and checks for you, preview databases, migrations, runtime limits, and pricing.
Is Prisma 8 Ready for Long-Lived Production Apps?
Prisma 8's lead developer answers three concerns from a Reddit thread: the new architecture, Prisma's commercial incentives, and whether the migration model hides your SQL.
Why Your Agent Reads a Prisma Schema Better Than Your Codebase
Your data model in one declarative file. We measure what a Prisma schema costs an AI coding agent in tokens and type-check time, and what it buys.
Search encrypted data with Prisma 8 and CipherStash
CipherStash brings searchable field-level encryption to Prisma 8: encrypted equality, free-text and range queries, and identity-based key management.
Don't Let Your AI Agent Delete Your Production Database
AI coding agents keep wiping production databases. Prisma 8 removes the failure modes structurally: no reset command, no shadow database, and migrations that verify every step.
Extending Prisma 8 with Typed Postgres ltree
Use PostgreSQL ltree in Prisma 8 with prisma-ltree: typed path columns plus ancestor and descendant queries.
See Your Migration History in Prisma Studio
The Prisma Studio Migrations view shows every applied Prisma 8 migration as a timeline with a visual diff, the executed SQL, and a schema diff.
How One Founder Builds a Live Sports Platform Without a Database Team
How Xeito uses Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres to ship live scoring, leagues, payments, and player workflows without a database team.
