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Neon is a fully managed serverless Postgres, separating compute and storage to offer features like autoscaling, branching and bottomless storage. Neon can be used from Bun directly using the @neondatabase/serverless driver or through an ORM like Drizzle. Drizzle ORM supports both a SQL-like “query builder” API and an ORM-like Queries API. Get started by creating a project directory, initializing the directory using bun init, and installing Drizzle and the Neon serverless driver.
terminal
mkdir bun-drizzle-neon
cd bun-drizzle-neon
bun init -y
bun add drizzle-orm @neondatabase/serverless
bun add -D drizzle-kit
Create a .env.local file and add your Neon Postgres connection string to it.
.env.local
DATABASE_URL=postgresql://usertitle:password@ep-adj-noun-guid.us-east-1.aws.neon.tech/neondb?sslmode=require
We will connect to the Neon database using the Neon serverless driver, wrapped in a Drizzle database instance.
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import {neon} from '@neondatabase/serverless';
import {drizzle} from 'drizzle-orm/neon-http';

// Bun automatically loads the DATABASE_URL from .env.local
// Refer to: https://bun.com/docs/runtime/env for more information
const sql = neon(process.env.DATABASE_URL!);

export const db = drizzle(sql);
To see the database in action, add these lines to index.ts.
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import {db} from './db';
import {sql} from 'drizzle-orm';

const query = sql`select 'hello world' as text`;
const result = await db.execute(query);
console.log(result.rows);
Then run index.ts with Bun.
terminal
bun run index.ts

[
  {
    text: "hello world",
  }
]
We can define a schema for our database using Drizzle ORM primitives. Create a schema.ts file and add this code.
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import {pgTable, integer, serial, text, timestamp} from 'drizzle-orm/pg-core';

export const authors = pgTable('authors', {
	id: serial('id').primaryKey(),
	title: text('name').notNull(),
	bio: text('bio'),
	createdAt: timestamp('created_at').notNull().defaultNow(),
});
We then use the drizzle-kit CLI to generate an initial SQL migration. 
bunx drizzle-kit generate --dialect postgresql --schema ./schema.ts --out ./drizzle
This creates a new drizzle directory containing a .sql migration file and meta directory.
File Tree
drizzle
├── 0000_aspiring_post.sql
└── meta
    ├── 0000_snapshot.json
    └── _journal.json
We can execute these migrations with a simple migrate.ts script. This script creates a new connection to the Neon database and executes all unexecuted migrations in the drizzle directory.
migrate.ts
import {db} from './db';
import {migrate} from 'drizzle-orm/neon-http/migrator';

const main = async () => {
	try {
		await migrate(db, {migrationsFolder: 'drizzle'});
		console.log('Migration completed');
	} catch (error) {
		console.error('Error during migration:', error);
		process.exit(1);
	}
};

main();
We can run this script with bun to execute the migration.
terminal
bun run migrate.ts

Migration completed
We can now add some data to our database. Create a seed.ts file with the following contents.
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import {db} from './db';
import * as schema from './schema';

async function seed() {
	await db.insert(schema.authors).values([
		{
			title: 'J.R.R. Tolkien',
			bio: 'The creator of Middle-earth and author of The Lord of the Rings.',
		},
		{
			title: 'George R.R. Martin',
			bio: 'The author of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.',
		},
		{
			title: 'J.K. Rowling',
			bio: 'The creator of the Harry Potter series.',
		},
	]);
}

async function main() {
	try {
		await seed();
		console.log('Seeding completed');
	} catch (error) {
		console.error('Error during seeding:', error);
		process.exit(1);
	}
}

main();
Then run this file.
terminal
bun run seed.ts

Seeding completed
We now have a database with a schema and sample data. We can use Drizzle to query it. Replace the contents of index.ts with the following.
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import * as schema from './schema';
import {db} from './db';

const result = await db.select().from(schema.authors);
console.log(result);
Then run the file. You should see the three authors we inserted.
terminal
bun run index.ts

[
  {
    id: 1,
    title: "J.R.R. Tolkien",
    bio: "The creator of Middle-earth and author of The Lord of the Rings.",
    createdAt: 2024-05-11T10:28:46.029Z,
  }, {
    id: 2,
    title: "George R.R. Martin",
    bio: "The author of the epic fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire.",
    createdAt: 2024-05-11T10:28:46.029Z,
  }, {
    id: 3,
    title: "J.K. Rowling",
    bio: "The creator of the Harry Potter series.",
    createdAt: 2024-05-11T10:28:46.029Z,
  }
]
This example used the Neon serverless driver’s SQL-over-HTTP functionality. Neon’s serverless driver also exposes Client and Pool constructors to enable sessions, interactive transactions, and node-postgres compatibility. Refer to Neon’s documentation for a complete overview. Refer to the Drizzle website for more documentation on using the Drizzle ORM.