--- title: ORMs vs. Query Builders for your Typescript application description: A comparison of four TypeScript SQL libraries for Postgres — Drizzle, Kysely, Prisma, and Zapatos — evaluated across learning curve, query syntax, migration... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/orms-vs-query-builders-for-your-typescript-application-p3xdplwvp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ORMs vs. Query Builders for your Typescript application | daily.dev og:description: A comparison of four TypeScript SQL libraries for Postgres — Drizzle, Kysely, Prisma, and Zapatos — evaluated across learning curve, query syntax, migration... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/orms-vs-query-builders-for-your-typescript-application-p3xdplwvp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/P3xDPLwvp.png og:image:alt: ORMs vs. Query Builders for your Typescript application og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ORMs vs. Query Builders for your Typescript application **[Neon](https://daily.dev/sources/neontech)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A comparison of four TypeScript SQL libraries for Postgres — Drizzle, Kysely, Prisma, and Zapatos — evaluated across learning curve, query syntax, migration support, edge runtime compatibility, and community size. Prisma leads in popularity and community support but lacks edge runtime support. Drizzle offers SQL-like syntax with a built-in migration CLI. Kysely provides flexible, type-safe queries with a WYSIWYG philosophy but no built-in migration CLI. Zapatos generates types from the database schema but doesn't handle migrations. Performance differences between all four were negligible in testing. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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