Airtable vs Prisma

At a Glance

Airtable

Prisma

Airtable

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Prisma

Pros

The schema definition language generates migrations, types, and a query client — it's the closest thing to a full ORM DX that TypeScript has+191
Auto-completion in VS Code for Prisma queries is genuinely the best ORM IDE experience I've used in any language+167

Database

Prisma vs Drizzle

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Cons

Prisma Client performance under heavy load is noticeably slower than raw SQL or lighter ORMs like Drizzle due to the query engine overhead+162
The query engine is a binary that has to be downloaded per platform — this causes deployment issues with exotic architectures and Lambda layers+141
Complex queries that Prisma can't express force you to drop into raw SQL, which breaks the type-safety you were relying on+127
Migration conflicts in teams with multiple developers working on the schema simultaneously are painful to resolve manually+89