Drizzle
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
Sep 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“it plays very well drizzle in my opinion”
“lately I've been happy with Drizzle for TS. It's very performant and expressive.”
switched from EF Coreon “What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)”
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“Particularly with drizzle, it means I can use sqlite on device with expo-sqlite”
Caveats and dissent
“Drizzle has no way to declare STRICT tables.”
“I quickly hit several limitations of Drizzle and I abandonned the project.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“On the backend we use Drizzle with Neon, deployed and monitored via Vercel.”
hiring for eventfirston “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)”
Threads where it came up
- Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026) 1 mention
- MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta 1 mention
- Zod v4.5 adds schema compilation (3-9x faster validation) 1 mention
- Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript 1 mention
- SQLite should have (Rust-style) editions 1 mention
- What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014) 1 mention
Also written as Drizzle ORM. Data: drizzle.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 9
“I recently switched to Drizzle”
“it plays very well drizzle in my opinion”
“sql is nk-db, built on top of drizzle”
“Drizzle has no way to declare STRICT tables.”
“lately I've been happy with Drizzle for TS. It's very performant and expressive.”
“I quickly hit several limitations of Drizzle and I abandonned the project.”
“out of the two it's a no-brainer.”
“Express/TypeScript with Drizzle ORM & Postgres.”
“Particularly with drizzle, it means I can use sqlite on device with expo-sqlite”