Database connection with Drizzle

Drizzle ORM runs SQL queries on your database via database drivers.

index.ts

schema.ts

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres"
import { users } from "./schema"

const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL);
const usersCount = await db.$count(users);

                        ┌──────────────────────┐
                        │   db.$count(users)   │ <--- drizzle query
                        └──────────────────────┘     
                            │               ʌ
select count(*) from users -│               │
                            │               │- [{ count: 0 }]
                            v               │
                         ┌─────────────────────┐
                         │    node-postgres    │ <--- database driver
                         └─────────────────────┘
                            │               ʌ
01101000 01100101 01111001 -│               │
                            │               │- 01110011 01110101 01110000
                            v               │
                         ┌────────────────────┐
                         │      Database      │ 
                         └────────────────────┘

import { pgTable, integer, text } from "drizzle-orm";

export const users = pgTable("users", {
  id: integer("id").generateAlwaysAsIdentity(),
  name: text("name"),
})

Under the hood Drizzle will create a node-postgres driver instance which you can access via db.$client if necessary

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres"

const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL);
const pool = db.$client;

// above is equivalent to
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/node-postgres";
import { Pool } from "pg";

const pool = new Pool({
  connectionString: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
});
const db = drizzle({ client: pool });

Drizzle is by design natively compatible with every edge or serverless runtime, whenever you’d need access to a serverless database - we’ve got you covered

Neon HTTP

Neon with websockets

Vercel Postgres

PlanetScale HTTP

Cloudflare d1

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/neon-http";

const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL);

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/neon-serverless";

const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL);

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/vercel-postgres";

const db = drizzle();

import { drizzle  } from "drizzle-orm/planetscale";

const db = drizzle(process.env.DATABASE_URL);

import { drizzle  } from "drizzle-orm/d1";

const db = drizzle({ connection: env.DB });

And yes, we do support runtime specific drivers like Bun SQLite or Expo SQLite:

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/bun-sqlite"

const db = drizzle(); // <--- will create an in-memory db
const db = drizzle("./sqlite.db");

import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/expo-sqlite";
import { openDatabaseSync } from "expo-sqlite/next";

const expo = openDatabaseSync("db.db");
const db = drizzle(expo);

Database connection URL

Just in case if you’re not familiar with database connection URL concept

postgresql://alex:AbC123dEf@ep-cool-darkness-123456.us-east-2.aws.neon.tech/dbname
             └──┘ └───────┘ └─────────────────────────────────────────────┘ └────┘
              ʌ    ʌ          ʌ                                              ʌ
        role -│    │          │- hostname                                    │- database
                   │
                   │- password

Next steps

Feel free to check out per-driver documentations

PostgreSQL drivers

PostgreSQL Neon Vercel Postgres Supabase Xata PGLite

MySQL drivers

MySQL PlanetsScale TiDB

SQLite drivers

SQLite Turso Cloudflare D1 Bun SQLite

Native SQLite

Expo SQLite OP SQLite React Native SQLite

Others

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