Alternatives

drizzle-orm alternatives

7 packages that do the same job as drizzle-orm: @mikro-orm/migrations, sequelize-typescript, typeorm, sequelize, @typegoose/typegoose, dbmate, @prisma/instrumentation. Figures below are from npm, GitHub and Bundlephobia.

Data as of 25 Sept 2026

drizzle-orm and 7 alternatives compared

Package	Weekly downloads	12-month change	Gzip	Dependencies	Last release	Module	Types	Runtimes
drizzle-orm This package	16.3m	+710%	-	0	3 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
@mikro-orm/migrations	391.3k	-	-	1	5 days ago	ESM only	Bundled	-
sequelize-typescript	373.9k	+25%	-	1	2 years ago	CommonJS	Bundled	-
typeorm	3.6m	+55%	-	10	23 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
sequelize	2m	+5%	-	16	6 months ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-
@typegoose/typegoose	182.7k	-	-	5	2 days ago	CommonJS	Bundled	-
dbmate	168k	+438%	-	0	6 days ago	ESM only	Bundled	-
@prisma/instrumentation	8.7m	+93%	-	1	30 days ago	ESM + CommonJS	Bundled	-

12-month change compares the average of the last 4 weeks of downloads with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series. Gzip size is for the whole package (Bundlephobia). Runtimes are taken from each package's own documentation; "-" means not recorded.

@mikro-orm/migrations

TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases as well as usage with vanilla JavaScript.

Compared with drizzle-orm

42x fewer weekly downloads (391.3k vs 16.3m)
1 dependency vs 0
ESM only vs ESM + CommonJS
Declares Node.js >= 22.17.0 vs none declared
Last release 19 Sept 2026 vs 21 Sept 2026
3.9x fewer GitHub stars (9.2k vs 35.9k)

@mikro-orm/migrations package page

sequelize-typescript

Decorators and some other features for sequelize

Compared with drizzle-orm

44x fewer weekly downloads (373.9k vs 16.3m)
1 dependency vs 0
CommonJS vs ESM + CommonJS
Declares Node.js >=10.0.0 vs none declared
Last release 24 Nov 2023 vs 21 Sept 2026
13x fewer GitHub stars (2.8k vs 35.9k)

sequelize-typescript package page drizzle-orm vs sequelize-typescript

typeorm

Data-Mapper ORM for TypeScript and ES2023+. Supports MySQL/MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, SQLite, MongoDB databases.

Compared with drizzle-orm

4.6x fewer weekly downloads (3.6m vs 16.3m)
10 dependencies vs 0
Declares Node.js ^20.19.0 || ^22.13.0 || >=24.11.0 vs none declared
Last release 1 Sept 2026 vs 21 Sept 2026
About the same number of GitHub stars (36.7k vs 35.9k)

typeorm package page drizzle-orm vs typeorm

sequelize

Sequelize is a promise-based Node.js ORM tool for Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Amazon Redshift and Snowflake’s Data Cloud. It features solid transaction support, relations, eager and lazy loading, read replication and more.