Prisma Documentation

Start building with Prisma ORM

Node.js and TypeScript ORM with an intuitive data model, automated migrations, type-safety, and auto-completion.

Combine it with Prisma Studio to explore and manipulate your data.

ORM →Studio →

Optimize your database queries

Use Prisma Optimize to generate insights and get recommendations to improve your database queries, making your application run faster.

Optimize →

Grow and evolve your application

Scale your database connections and cache your database results at the edge with Prisma Accelerate.

Add Prisma Pulse to your app to react to database changes with type-safe model subscriptions.

Accelerate →Pulse →

CRUD →

How to perform CRUD operations with your generated Prisma Client API.

Adopting Prisma ORM →

Migrate to Prisma ORM from other ORMs.

Deployment guides →

Deploy Node.js applications with Prisma Client to platforms like Vercel, AWS Lambda, Netlify and Heroku.

Set up Optimize →

Start analyzing your queries and generate insights to improve your queries.

Recommendations →

Explore the different recommendations such as indexing issues, excessive data retrieval, and inefficient query patterns.

Prisma AI →

Understand the recommendations easier by asking our AI follow-up questions.

Connection pooling →

Adjust pool size, configure timeouts, and enable autoscaling to improve performance.

Database caching →

How to improve query performance by configuring cache behavior using TTL and SWR.

React to database changes →

Use Pulse to stream database events to your app in real-time.

ORM Components and Reference

Learn about the building blocks of Prisma ORM.

Prisma Schema →Schema reference →Prisma Client →Client API reference →Prisma CLI →Prisma CLI reference →Prisma Migrate →Error message reference →

Platform Reference

Understand the usage and API surface of our platform products built on top of Prisma ORM.

Accelerate API reference →Pulse API reference →Platform →Platform CLI commands →

Databases

Prisma ORM works seamlessly across most popular databases and service providers. Refer to our Database features matrix for information about supported features and types for each database.
To explore supported databases for Accelerate, visit the prerequisites section. For Pulse, see the database setup documentation.