Top 10 JavaScript ODM / ORM Projects

SheetJS js-xlsx

1 63 35,775 2.4 JavaScript

📗 SheetJS Spreadsheet Data Toolkit -- New home https://git.sheetjs.com/SheetJS/sheetjs

Project mention: 🧩 I Built a Simple Tool to Merge Excel Files — the Lazy Way | dev.to | 2025-07-01

・HTML + JavaScript (frontend only) ・SheetJS(xlsx) for parsing Excel/CSV files ・FileReader API for reading files in-browser ・Clipboard API for copying to clipboard
SurveyJS

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JavaScript Form Builder with No-Code UI & Built-In JSON Schema Editor. Keep full control over the data you collect and tailor the form builder’s entire look and feel to your users’ needs. SurveyJS works with React, Angular, Vue 3, and is compatible with any backend or auth system. Learn more.
Mongoose

2 120 27,286 10.0 JavaScript

MongoDB object modeling designed to work in an asynchronous environment.

Project mention: Learning MongoDB Like a Main Character 🍃🧑‍🚀 | dev.to | 2025-07-16

🌸Mongoose docs here : - https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose
Objection.js

3 24 7,334 7.5 JavaScript

An SQL-friendly ORM for Node.js

Project mention: Node.js uchun ORM tanlaymiz! | dev.to | 2025-04-26

Objection.js - ⚠️ bor, lekin zo'r emas ☹️
Bookshelf

4 8 6,367 0.0 JavaScript

A simple Node.js ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL and SQLite3 built on top of Knex.js
Waterline

5 2 5,412 0.0 JavaScript

An adapter-based ORM for Node.js with support for mysql, mongo, postgres, mssql (SQL Server), and more
pg-promise

6 18 3,518 6.8 JavaScript

PostgreSQL interface for Node.js
orm2

7 0 3,060 2.4 JavaScript

Object Relational Mapping
Stream

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node-mssql

8 14 2,264 7.8 JavaScript

Microsoft SQL Server client for Node.js
firenze

9 0 130 0.0 JavaScript

Adapter based JavaScript ORM for Node.js and the browser
uuid-mongodb

10 0 101 4.3 JavaScript

📇 Generates and parses MongoDB BSON UUIDs

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source ODM / ORM projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

#	Project	Stars
1	SheetJS js-xlsx	35,775
2	Mongoose	27,286
3	Objection.js	7,334
4	Bookshelf	6,367
5	Waterline	5,412
6	pg-promise	3,518
7	orm2	3,060
8	node-mssql	2,264
9	firenze	130
10	uuid-mongodb	101