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.
performance
3 posts with the tag “performance”
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.
In search of the fastest TypeScript ORM
Pure SQL generation speed across 7 TypeScript ORMs and query builders, measured with an open, reproducible benchmark.