Prisma Documentation

ORM

Talk to your database, easily

Open source Node.js and TypeScript ORM with an intuitive data model, automated migrations, type-safety, and auto-completion.

Studio

Explore and manipulate your data

Interact with your data in a simple tabular interface with full CRUD capabilities, filtering, sorting, and safe editing directly in the model cells.

Postgres

Managed Postgres for global workloads

A managed PostgreSQL database without cold starts. Easily deploy your database in three clicks, explore with a generous free tier, and scale as needed.

Optimize

AI-driven insights

Analyze your queries and get recommedations to improve your database queries, making your app run faster.

Accelerate

Connection pooling & caching

A fully managed global connection pool and caching layer for your existing database, enabling query-level cache policies.

Pulse

Real-time db events

Distribute change events to your application at scale, enabling database changes to trigger events and actions in real-time.

Resources

CRUD →

How to perform CRUD operations with your generated Prisma Client API.

Adopting Prisma ORM →

Migrate to Prisma ORM from other ORMs.

Deployment guides →

Deploy Node.js applications with Prisma Client to platforms like Vercel, AWS Lambda, Netlify and Heroku.

Set up Optimize →

Start analyzing your queries and generate insights to improve your queries.

Recommendations →

Explore the different recommendations such as indexing issues, excessive data retrieval, and inefficient query patterns.

Prisma AI →

Understand the recommendations easier by asking our AI follow-up questions.

Connection pooling →

Adjust pool size, configure timeouts, and enable autoscaling to improve performance.

Database caching →

How to improve query performance by configuring cache behavior using TTL and SWR.

React to database changes →

Use Pulse to stream database events to your app in real-time.

ORM Components

Learn about the building blocks of Prisma ORM.

Prisma Schema →Schema reference →Prisma Client →Client API reference →Prisma CLI →Prisma CLI reference →Prisma Migrate →Error message reference →

Platform Reference

Understand the usage and API surface of our platform products built on top of Prisma ORM.

Accelerate API reference →Pulse API reference →Platform →Platform CLI commands →

Databases

Prisma ORM works seamlessly across most popular databases and service providers. Refer to our Database features matrix for information about supported features and types for each database.
To explore supported databases for Accelerate, visit the prerequisites section. For Pulse, see the database setup documentation.