DrizzleORM with Upstash Redis

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Quickstart

DrizzleORM provides an upstashCache() helper to easily connect with Upstash Redis. To prevent surprises, the cache is always opt-in by default. Nothing is cached until you opt-in for a specific query or enable global caching.

1. Install the package:

npm install drizzle-orm@cache

2. Configure your Drizzle instance:

import { upstashCache } from "drizzle-orm/cache/upstash"
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/..."

const db = drizzle(process.env.DB_URL!, {
  cache: upstashCache(),
})

You can also explicitly define your Upstash credentials, enable global caching for all queries by default (opt-out) or pass custom caching options:

import { upstashCache } from "drizzle-orm/cache/upstash"
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/..."

const db = drizzle(process.env.DB_URL!, {
  cache: upstashCache({
    // 👇 Redis credentials (optional — can also be pulled from env vars)
    url: "<UPSTASH_URL>",
    token: "<UPSTASH_TOKEN>",
    // 👇 Enable caching for all queries (optional, default false)
    global: true,
    // 👇 Default cache behavior (optional)
    config: { ex: 60 },
  }),
})

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Cache Behavior

• Per-query caching (opt-in, default):
  No queries are cached unless you explicitly call .$withCache().

  await db.insert(users).value({ email: "cacheman@upstash.com" });
  
  // 👇 reads from cache
  await db.select().from(users).$withCache()
  

• Global caching:
  When setting global: true, all queries will read from cache by default.

  const db = drizzle(process.env.DB_URL!, {
    cache: upstashCache({ global: true }),
  })
  
  // 👇 reads from cache (no more explicit `$withCache()`)
  await db.select().from(users)
  

  You can always turn off caching for a specific query:

  await db.select().from(users).$withCache(false)
  

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Manual Cache Invalidation

Cache invalidation is fully automatic by default. If you ever need to, you can manually invalidate cached queries by table name or custom tags:

// 👇 invalidate all queries that use the `users` table
await db.$cache?.invalidate({ tables: ["usersTable"] })

// 👇 invalidate all queries by custom tag (defined in previous queries)
await db.$cache?.invalidate({ tags: ["custom_key"] })

For more details on this integration, refer to the Drizzle ORM caching documentation.