# Drizzle ORM

25 Hacker News commenters recommended Drizzle ORM and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 10 of 13 months. It meets the Hacker Approved badge rule.

**Verdict:** People recommend it for type-safe, editor-friendly queries, easy migrations and a clean API. Critics say it has rough edges with Bun and SQLite.

## Why people recommend it

- Full type safety and editor help (3 comments): "oRPC + Drizzle that lets you pipe data from your database to frontend with full typing" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347935)) "you get a lot of help from your editor that you wouldn't get when writing SQL" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45802380)) "the schema and queries all become fully type safe." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46250912))
- Works well with other tools (3 comments): "plays very well drizzle in my opinion" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49493819)) "Even has Drizzle ORM integration" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46147068)) "native drizzle orm support" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50300498))
- Easy migrations and versioning (2 comments): "drizzle makes it very very straightfoward to handle DB migration / versioning, so I like it a lot for that" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45805610)) "I like how Drizzle provides several options for the migrations." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46894114))
- Clear, intuitive, expressive API (2 comments): "It's very performant and expressive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787281)) "The API is more intuitive, imo." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47241764))

## What people warn about

- Missing features and limitations (3 comments): "It is annoying that the library does not just give you the query duration by default." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686858)) "I quickly hit several limitations of Drizzle and I abandonned the project" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750448)) "Drizzle has no way to declare STRICT tables." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928850))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Entity Framework Core](https://hackerapproved.com/p/entity-framework-core.md): 35 recommend
- [SQLAlchemy](https://hackerapproved.com/p/sqlalchemy.md): 33 recommend
- [Dapper](https://hackerapproved.com/p/dapper.md): 19 recommend
- [Oxyde ORM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/oxyde.md): 18 recommend
- [Django ORM](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django-orm.md): 15 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Drizzle ORM", https://hackerapproved.com/p/drizzle-orm/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).