ORM posts
Articles tagged ORM on the Prisma blog: guides, announcements, and updates from the team building Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres.
Is Prisma 8 Ready for Long-Lived Production Apps?
Prisma 8's lead developer answers three concerns from a Reddit thread: the new architecture, Prisma's commercial incentives, and whether the migration model hides your SQL.
Why Your Agent Reads a Prisma Schema Better Than Your Codebase
Your data model in one declarative file. We measure what a Prisma schema costs an AI coding agent in tokens and type-check time, and what it buys.
Search encrypted data with Prisma 8 and CipherStash
CipherStash brings searchable field-level encryption to Prisma 8: encrypted equality, free-text and range queries, and identity-based key management.
Don't Let Your AI Agent Delete Your Production Database
AI coding agents keep wiping production databases. Prisma 8 removes the failure modes structurally: no reset command, no shadow database, and migrations that verify every step.
Extending Prisma 8 with Typed Postgres ltree
Use PostgreSQL ltree in Prisma 8 with prisma-ltree: typed path columns plus ancestor and descendant queries.
See Your Migration History in Prisma Studio
The Prisma Studio Migrations view shows every applied Prisma 8 migration as a timeline with a visual diff, the executed SQL, and a schema diff.
How One Founder Builds a Live Sports Platform Without a Database Team
How Xeito uses Prisma ORM and Prisma Postgres to ship live scoring, leagues, payments, and player workflows without a database team.
Search the Prisma Docs Using Your Coding Agent
The Prisma MCP server now answers documentation questions in your editor. Ask about ORM, Postgres, or Compute and get a cited answer, no tab-switching, no extra setup.
Prisma 8 Is ~90% As Fast as Raw PG
Prisma 8 performance benchmarks achieves ~90% of the raw pg driver's peak throughput, holds latency low under load, and ships as a 148.5 KB gzipped bundle for serverless and edge workloads.
Prisma 8 Early Access: Write Your Contract, Prompt Your Agent, Ship Your App
Prisma 8 is open for Early Access. Define your data layer as a contract and the framework handles migrations, type-safe queries, and continuous upgrades, safe to delegate to your agent.
Prisma 8: April Milestone Complete, the Extension API Is Open
April shipped the first four extensions on the new Prisma 8 extension API: pgvector, arktype-json, ParadeDB, and CipherStash. The extension API is open to outside authors. May shifts to Early Access.
Prisma 8: A Call for Extension Authors
Prisma 8 has a tiny core that knows nothing about specific databases. Postgres, vector search, and JSON-with-schema are extensions, on the same surface that's open to you. An invitation to build.