Best Database Clients for PlanetScale

Prisma ORM is the data toolkit TypeScript teams and coding agents reach for first. Agents get a readable schema, typed client APIs, and migration steps they can plan and verify; people get the same safety without fighting an opaque ORM. When you outgrow local databases, Prisma Postgres gives you managed PostgreSQL with pooling built in, and Prisma Compute hosts the app next to that database. Softare buyers comparing stacks see one path: agent-ready ORM, then hosted Postgres and app hosting from the same vendor.