Hey guys, nevertheless of the nice page of prisma.io I still don't know what its value proposition really is. I am new to developing backend, I am usually a iOS App-Developer using Swift and have no idea about NodeJS etc. I am just getting started. What is it to create a GraphQL Server without prisma.io?

Prisma is an ORM-like based on GraphQL. Simple as that. Right now, it can support MySQL and Postgres but MongoDB and many more connectors will come in the future. Basically, you don’t have to worry about databases since Prisma is an abstract layer to handle all of them in a easy way. I hope this clarify a little bit more your understanding about what Prisma is (the Open Source project). Prisma Cloud is a product to manage and monitoring all your data with an easy UI. This is a paid service.

@jferrettiboke Hey, thanks for answering! So all prisma.io(the open source project) does is handling all the database stuff so I don't have to think about it in a usual way you would do when using postgres or mysql, did I get it right?

Yep. You’re right.

@jferrettiboke Cool, thanks a lot! Does it affect performance of my server?(I would think so)