PostgreSQL in Node.js: node-postgres vs Prisma vs Drizzle
Raw SQL with pg, the batteries-included Prisma, or the SQL-shaped Drizzle? A working comparison from teams that run all three in production.
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Postgres is the most capable open-source database in existence and our default for anything transactional. Strict consistency, real constraints, JSONB where flexibility helps and extensions like PostGIS and pgvector mean it handles workloads other stacks split across three separate systems.
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