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Common Terminologies in ORMs

Explore common Object Relational Mapper terminologies used in TypeScript and Node.js development. Understand concepts such as models, entities, queries, relationships, migrations, seeding, and synchronization to effectively implement and manage databases using popular ORMs like Prisma and TypeORM.

Let’s take a look at some of the popular keywords in ORMs. Among different ORMs, the terminologies described here are very common and always mean the same thing. It’s a good idea to learn how they’re implemented for each ORM. This deepens our understanding of the ORM and how to use it efficiently.

Models

Models refer to our SQL tables. In SQL, every column has a column name, data type, and other optional attributes, while a row has the data ...