edgedb VS Prisma

Compare edgedb vs Prisma and see what are their differences.

edgedb

A graph-relational database with declarative schema, built-in migration system, and a next-generation query language (by edgedb)

Prisma

Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript | PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQL Server, SQLite, MongoDB and CockroachDB (by prisma)
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edgedb Prisma
19 441
12,152 36,783
1.2% 2.3%
9.9 9.9
about 20 hours ago 4 days ago
Python TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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edgedb

Posts with mentions or reviews of edgedb. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-22.
  • Beyond SQL: A relational database for modern applications
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
    A new DB, with a new query language that's like "SQL done right"? This immediately reminded me of EdgeDB: https://edgedb.com/

    Is there anyone here who knows enough about these two products to do a compare/contrast?

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2023
    See also https://edgedb.com/ which is another relational database without sql
  • EdgeDB 3.0
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Jun 2023
    The whole thing consists of these main parts:

    1. SQL parser: https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/tree/master/edb/pgsql/parse...

  • DuckDB 0.8.0
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 May 2023
    >relational no-sql

    Do you mean something like edgeDB?[0]

    Or do you mean some non-declarative language completely? I don't see the latter making much sense. The issue with SQL for me is the "natural language" which quickly loses all intended readabilty when you have SELECT col1, col2 FROM (SELECT * FROM ... WHERE 1=0 AND ... which is what edgeDB is trying to solve.

    [0]https://edgedb.com/

  • EdgeDB 2.0
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2022
    That `sys::TransactionIsolation` doc is outdated, EdgeDB only supports the `Serializable` transaction isolation. See related discussion [1]

    At this point EdgeDB supports Postgres HA passively, i.e. it will react to a failover event in your cluster via one of the documented mechanisms. Support for "active" cluster management is a planned feature too.

    Finally, EdgeDB server itself is fully stateless and you can run multiple instances of it in front of the same Postgres cluster. Admittedly, we need to document this better.

    [1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb/discussions/3466

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2022
    Would really appreciate it if you could open issues in the main [1] repo and we'll figure it out. We're investing a ridiculous amount of time into our docs and want them to be the best possible.

    [1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb

    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Jul 2022
  • GraphQL Is a Trap?
    18 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2022
    You have to do your own optimiser to avoid, for instance, the N+1 query problem. (Just Google that, plenty of explanations around.) Many GraphQL frameworks have a “naive” subquery implementation that performs N individual subqueries. You either have to override this for each parent/child pairing, or bolt something on the back to delay all the “SELECT * FROM tbl_subquery WHERE id = ?” operations and convert them into one “… WHERE id IN (…)”. Sounds like a great use of your time.

    In the end you might think to yourself “why am I doing this, when my SQL database already has query optimisation?”. And it’s a fair question, you are onto it. Try one of those auto-GraphQL things instead. EdgeDB (https://edgedb.com) does it as we speak, runs atop Postgres. Save yourself the enormous effort if you’re only building a GraphQL API for a single RBDMS, and not as a façade for a cluster of microservices and databases and external requests.

    Or just nod to your boss and go back to what being a backend developer has always meant: laboriously building by hand completely ad hoc JSON versions of SQL RBDMS schemas, each terribly unhappy in its own way. In no way does doing it manually but presenting GraphQL deviate from this Sisyphean tradition.

    I read in the article that NOT having GraphQL exactly match your DB schema is a best practice. My response is “did a backend developer write this?”

  • How we sharded our test suite for 10x faster runs on GitHub Actions
    3 projects | /r/devops | 3 May 2022
    Same idea, yeah. Unfortunately, in our case we couldn't use pytest due to complicated test setup, so we used a customized unittest runner instead.
  • GraphQL is now available on Supabase
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2022
    EdgeDB [1] has indeed a rich GraphQL layer, but it's a very different project.

    While it also builds on top of Postgres, EdgeDB replaces the entire relational database front-end. EdgeDB features a SQL replacement language called EdgeQL (analytical capabilities of SQL married with deep-fetching in GraphQL), a higher-level data model (tables -> object types), integrated migrations engine, a custom protocol with great performance & great client APIs, and many other things. Read more here [2].

    (disclaimer: I'm EdgeDB co-founder)

    [1] https://github.com/edgedb/edgedb

    [2] https://www.edgedb.com/blog/edgedb-1-0

Prisma

Posts with mentions or reviews of Prisma. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing edgedb and Prisma you can also consider the following projects:

Knex - A query builder for PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, SQL Server, SQLite3 and Oracle, designed to be flexible, portable, and fun to use.

Sequelize - Feature-rich ORM for modern Node.js and TypeScript, it supports PostgreSQL (with JSON and JSONB support), MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Snowflake, Oracle DB (v6), DB2 and DB2 for IBM i.

TypeORM - ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript. Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP Hana, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.

Mongoose - MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

MikroORM - TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.

lucid - AdonisJS SQL ORM. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, Redshift, SQLite and many more

Objection.js - An SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js

drizzle-orm - Headless TypeScript ORM with a head. Runs on Node, Bun and Deno. Lives on the Edge and yes, it's a JavaScript ORM too 😅

sveltekit-prisma - A sample repository to show how SvelteKit and Prisma work together.

PostgreSQL - PostgreSQL client for node.js.

KeystoneJS - The most powerful headless CMS for Node.js — built with GraphQL and React

liquibase - Main Liquibase Source