Prisma is a Query Builder, not an ORM (like Objection). We chose this approach since ORM suffer from the object-relational impedance mismatch problem (described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-relational_impedance_mi...) We explain this in more details here: https://www.prisma.io/docs/understand-prisma/why-prisma#orms... or there: https://dataguide.prisma.io/types/relational/comparing-sql-q...