Developer builds lightweight multi-database ORM after MongoDB hit reporting limits

A developer building VirtualRx, a business-management app, chose MongoDB at the outset but ran into limitations eight months later when a client requested cross-location sales reporting that proved cumbersome with MongoDB's aggregation pipeline. Rather than maintaining two separate data layers for MongoDB and Postgres, the developer sought a single query interface that could work across multiple databases without a code-generation step. Existing tools like Prisma, Drizzle, and TypeORM each fell short for different reasons, including build steps, SQL-centric design, or inability to run in a browser environment. This led to the creation of forge-orm, an open-source, Prisma-shaped data layer supporting PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, SQLite, DuckDB, and SQL Server, where models are defined once in TypeScript and queries run against whichever database the URL points to. The library ships no bundled drivers, keeping the core install lightweight, and includes a raw query escape hatch for complex operations the abstraction does not cover.