Prisma

Prisma brand colours

Extracted from the artwork and ranked by how much of the mark each covers — not from a brand book, so treat them as observed rather than official.

Prisma is a TypeScript ORM built around a declarative schema file that generates a fully typed client. Migrations, introspection and Studio come with it, and for teams who want their database schema in one readable place rather than scattered through decorators or migration files, that file is the whole appeal. The historical criticisms were the Rust query engine binary, which complicated serverless and edge deployments, and query generation that produced surprising N+1 patterns — both substantially addressed in recent versions as the engine moved into TypeScript. It competes with Drizzle, which stays much closer to SQL and appeals to people who resent the abstraction, Kysely as a typed query builder, TypeORM and MikroORM in the decorator tradition, and increasingly with backend platforms that supply their own data layer and make the ORM question moot entirely.