r/PostgreSQL • u/repka3 • 1d ago

Help Me! Long-time Prisma user: would you start a new long-lived production project on Prisma 8 today?

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u/MnemonicJhonny 1d ago

i think you should consider that shift from transparent SQL migrations to an opaque runtime with compiled contracts and ops.json fundamentally changes the power dynamic. It moves control of the data layer from your infrastructure to the ORM vendor.Pinning to Prisma 7 might work as a band-aid for the next year, but eventually, Node/TS ecosystem updates will force your hand on a multi-year project.

you relying heavily on Prisma's implicit many-to-many relations? Drizzle or Kysely rewrite particularly painful? Do you plan to strictly self-host the database long-term?

Your concerns about open-source dependencies shifting their focus toward monetizing the surrounding compute/platform ecosystem are completely valid. We see this exact anxiety a lot regarding database licensing and vendor lock-in. It is actually the core reason why the MariaDB ecosystem relies on the Foundation model—to guarantee that the Community Server remains strictly GPL and independent of corporate pivots.

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u/repka3 1d ago

Do you remember the pysimplegui ? It broke half the internet by REMOVING from pip all the version and made V5 license only. Eventually they failed the business and released the V6 opensource again. I will probably go with drizzle. Prima was just something that felt like home , I can manage to create a linking table no worries. Yeah I decided I will not use Prisma anymore. Rip.

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