ORM posts
Articles tagged ORM on the Prisma blog: guides, announcements, and updates from the team building Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres.
Search the Prisma Docs Using Your Coding Agent
The Prisma MCP server now answers documentation questions in your editor. Ask about ORM, Postgres, or Compute and get a cited answer, no tab-switching, no extra setup.
Prisma 8 Is ~90% As Fast as Raw PG
Prisma 8 performance benchmarks achieves ~90% of the raw pg driver's peak throughput, holds latency low under load, and ships as a 148.5 KB gzipped bundle for serverless and edge workloads.
Prisma 8 Early Access: Write Your Contract, Prompt Your Agent, Ship Your App
Prisma 8 is open for Early Access. Define your data layer as a contract and the framework handles migrations, type-safe queries, and continuous upgrades, safe to delegate to your agent.
Prisma 8: April Milestone Complete, the Extension API Is Open
April shipped the first four extensions on the new Prisma 8 extension API: pgvector, arktype-json, ParadeDB, and CipherStash. The extension API is open to outside authors. May shifts to Early Access.
Prisma 8: A Call for Extension Authors
Prisma 8 has a tiny core that knows nothing about specific databases. Postgres, vector search, and JSON-with-schema are extensions, on the same surface that's open to you. An invitation to build.
Data Migrations in Prisma 8
Write data migrations in TypeScript with Prisma 8. Backfill columns and transform data alongside schema changes using a type-safe query builder.
Introducing Create-Prisma: Start a Prisma App With One Command
create-prisma is a new CLI that creates an app with Prisma set up, a starter schema, seed data, database scripts, and optional Prisma Postgres setup.
TypeScript Migrations in Prisma 8
In Prisma 8, migrations are TypeScript files you can read, edit, and re-run with confidence. Every step is verified before it runs and again after, and every failure points directly at the operation that caused it.
MongoDB Without Compromise
Prisma 8 brings a MongoDB-native experience to TypeScript with type-safe queries, real migrations, polymorphic models, embedded collections, and typed aggregation pipelines.
Rethinking Database Migrations
Database migrations are brittle and they break when you're most vulnerable; when you're deploying to production. Prisma 8 migrations make them explicit, verifiable and safe to retry.
Prisma 8 Roadmap
Have you been wondering when you can start using Prisma 8 in your app? Take a look at our roadmap to find out.
The Next Evolution of Prisma ORM
A look at Prisma 8, a ground-up rethink of Prisma that improves queries, extensibility, migrations, and AI-friendly workflows while keeping Prisma’s schema-first approach.