prisma-mongodb-upgrade
Prisma ORM MongoDB प्रोजेक्ट्स के लिए v6 पर निर्णय और माइग्रेशन गाइड, जिनके पास v7 में अपग्रेड का कोई पथ नहीं है। इसका उपयोग तब करें जब कोई MongoDB प्रोजेक्ट Prisma को अपग्रेड करने के बारे में पूछता है, जब "upgrade to prisma 7" किसी प्रोजेक्ट में provider = "mongodb" के साथ आता है, या Prisma Next में जाने का मूल्यांकन करते समय। "upgrade prisma mongodb", "prisma 7 mongodb", "mongodb prisma migration", "prisma next mongodb" पर ट्रिगर होता है।
npx skills add https://github.com/prisma/skills --skill prisma-mongodb-upgradePrisma MongoDB Upgrade Path
MongoDB projects are the one Prisma cohort with no road into Prisma 7: v6 is the terminal classic-ORM major for MongoDB, and v7 never ships a MongoDB connector. The successor path is Prisma Next, where MongoDB support is in Early Access with GA planned after Postgres. This skill frames the real decision — migrate to Prisma Next (the encouraged path), or stay on v6 where a hard blocker applies — and carries the migration mechanics.
Never do either of these:
- Never advise a MongoDB project to "upgrade to Prisma 7". The connector does not exist
there. The
prisma-upgrade-v7guide does not apply to MongoDB projects. - Never solve the version question by rewriting the app onto a SQL database. Changing the database engine is a separate, much larger decision that is not yours to make implicitly.
The version landscape
| Version | MongoDB status |
|---|---|
| Prisma ORM v6 | Fully supported (mongodb provider); latest 6.x is the current stable path; maintenance line |
| Prisma ORM v7 | No MongoDB connector — not an option, ever |
| Prisma Next | MongoDB support in Early Access, actively developed, GA planned after Postgres — the successor path for MongoDB projects |
The decision, up front
Migrating to Prisma Next is the encouraged path. MongoDB support in Prisma Next is Early Access: functional and moving quickly, with GA planned after Postgres — and the Prisma team wants MongoDB users to migrate early and share feedback. The migration mechanics are detailed in the references.
Staying on the latest v6 remains a legitimate choice where a hard blocker applies — stated plainly: the Next Mongo façade does not wrap transactions yet (the underlying driver is available directly; this is expected to change soon), and pre-1.0 minors can carry breaking changes with published upgrade recipes.
Decision table
| Signal | Direction |
|---|---|
| No blockers below apply | Migrate to Next; run the verify-cutover-checklist and share feedback with the Prisma team |
| Greenfield / prototype / internal tool | Migrate to Next |
Codebase uses multi-document transactions ($transaction) — check with grep, do not ask | Plan raw-driver session equivalents first (see client-api-mapping), or stay on v6 until the façade wrapper lands |
| Team cannot absorb pre-1.0 breaking upgrades between minors | Stay on v6 until GA |
| Risk-averse but interested | Run a staged Next round-trip on a copy (see verify-cutover-checklist), then migrate |
Note: the transactions gap is expected to close soon — this section will be updated when façade transactions merge in Prisma Next.
If staying on v6: hygiene (a deliberate stay, not neglect)
- Pin the Prisma packages to the latest 6.x line and keep taking 6.x patch releases.
- Track Prisma release notes and security advisories for the 6.x line.
- Keep the classic v6 MongoDB setup:
url = env("DATABASE_URL")in the schema,db pushworkflow, no SQL driver adapters (seeprisma-database-setupfor the v6 MongoDB shape). - Re-evaluate when Prisma Next's MongoDB is GA, or when blockers for trying EA are resolved.
Reference files
| Reference | What it covers |
|---|---|
references/decision-stay-or-migrate.md | The full decision framing, blocker checks, and stay-hygiene detail |
references/schema-contract-mapping.md | v6 schema (mongodb provider, @db.ObjectId, composite types) → Next contract concepts |
references/client-api-mapping.md | v6 client calls → Next equivalents, incl. raw escape hatches and transactions — names map, parity does not |
references/migrations-mapping.md | v6 db push-only story → Next's plan/migrate/verify/sign flow |
references/verify-cutover-checklist.md | No-data-moves verification: same DB, index parity, staged round-trip before cutover |
Verified against
Behavioral claims about Prisma Next in this skill were verified against
prisma/prisma-next at commit
a2791c5dd59d579b4b3052942ae7f8fe5e2ee852 (pre-1.0, ~v0.14/0.15 line). Prisma Next moves
quickly in Early Access: before acting on any Next-side claim, verify it against the
version actually installed (check the project's @prisma-next/* versions and the
prisma-next skills installed with it). Next's Mongo target requires MongoDB 8.0+ and expects
mongodb@^7 as a user-supplied peer dependency.
Hand-off rule
This skill is the discovery bridge, not a replacement for Prisma Next's own
documentation. After a project switches to Prisma Next, run Prisma Next's init/skill
installation and follow its own skills (quickstart, contract, queries, migrations, runtime)
for day-to-day work — do not keep working from this skill's summaries.