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  The Architecture Trap: "Just Add Another Database" It is 2025. You are designing a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline for a high-traffic SaaS application. Your application data—users, permissions, document metadata—already lives in PostgreSQL. When the requirement for "Semantic Search" lands on your desk, the immediate impulse is often to provision a dedicated vector database like Pinecone, Weaviate, or Qdrant. This is often a mistake. While dedicated vector databases offer impressive niche features, introducing them creates a  Distributed State Problem . You now have two sources of truth. When a user updates a document in PostgreSQL, you must synchronously update the vector store. If the PostgreSQL transaction commits but the API call to the vector DB fails (or lags), your user sees inconsistent search results. You are essentially fighting the CAP theorem unnecessarily. For 95% of use cases—specifically those under 100 million vectors—the architectural...

  The database ORM landscape has shifted. Two years ago, the decision matrix was simple: if you feared cold starts, you avoided Prisma. If you feared writing SQL, you avoided Drizzle. In 2025, the lines have blurred. Prisma’s introduction of  Driver Adapters  (Neon, PlanetScale, Turso) essentially solved the heavy Rust binary cold-start issue on serverless/edge environments. Meanwhile, Drizzle has gained massive adoption but hit a new, less documented scaling wall:  TypeScript Language Server (LSP) performance. We are now seeing large monorepos (500+ tables) using Drizzle where VS Code Intellisense lags by 2-3 seconds on every keystroke. This post addresses the current trade-off:  Prisma's memory footprint vs. Drizzle's type-inference cost , and provides a specific architectural pattern to fix Drizzle's compilation lag. The Root Cause Analysis Prisma: The Memory Tax Prisma generates a static  node_modules/.prisma/client/index.d.ts  file. When you query...