• What is Prisma?

• Prisma is a next-generation ORM that consists of these tools:

  • [Prisma Client]https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-client): Auto-generated and type-safe query builder for Node.js & TypeScript
  • Prisma Migrate: Declarative data modeling & migration system
  • Prisma Studio: GUI to view and edit data in your database Prisma Client can be used in any Node.js or TypeScript backend application (including serverless applications and microservices). This can be a REST API, a GraphQL API, a gRPC API, or anything else that needs a database.

• The Prisma ORM can also further be extended with these Prisma products:

  • Prisma Accelerate: Global database cache with scalable connection pooling
  • Prisma Pulse: Real-time database events with type-safe subscriptions

Getting started

The fastest way to get started with Prisma is by following the Quickstart (5 min).