We measured what top TypeScript ORMs really cost, and Prisma is slower than you think
Six ORMs, one full PostgreSQL lifecycle, timed per step. Prisma comes fifth of six, and one step is responsible for most of it.
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5 posts with the tag “orm”
Zero dependencies: what we deleted to fit on the edge
npm i uql-orm installs one package and nothing else. Getting there meant deleting a 1.8 MB transpiler, a 264 KB metadata polyfill, and the sourcemaps nobody read.
Standard decorators: props & cons
The annotation is now checked against the property it describes, which legacy decorators could never do. It cost three decorators, parameter injection, and NestJS compatibility.
In search of the fastest TypeScript ORM
Pure SQL generation speed across 7 TypeScript ORMs and query builders, measured with an open, reproducible benchmark.
In search of the perfect TypeScript ORM
What makes a perfect ORM? I evaluated the top 5 features every TypeScript ORM should have, and why the existing ones fall short.