Creating Custom Driver

If you want to use database that is not currently supported, you can implement your own driver. To do so, you will need to design 4 classes:

Platform

Platform is a class that provides information about available features of given driver:

import { Platform } from 'mikro-orm';

export class MyCustomPlatform extends Platform {

  protected abstract schemaHelper: MyCustomSchemaHelper;

  // here you can override default settings
  usesPivotTable(): boolean;
  supportsTransactions(): boolean;
  supportsSavePoints(): boolean;
  getNamingStrategy(): { new (): NamingStrategy; };
  getIdentifierQuoteCharacter(): string;
  getParameterPlaceholder(index?: number): string;
  usesReturningStatement(): boolean;
  normalizePrimaryKey<T = number | string>(data: IPrimaryKey): T;
  denormalizePrimaryKey(data: IPrimaryKey): IPrimaryKey;
  getSerializedPrimaryKeyField(field: string): string;

}

SchemaHelper

Part of platform is a SchemaHelper, that provides information about how to build schema.

import { SchemaHelper } from 'mikro-orm';

export class MyCustomSchemaHelper extends SchemaHelper {

  // here you can override default settings
  getIdentifierQuoteCharacter(): string;
  getSchemaBeginning(): string;
  getSchemaEnd(): string;
  getSchemaTableEnd(): string;
  getAutoIncrementStatement(meta: EntityMetadata): string;
  getPrimaryKeySubtype(meta: EntityMetadata): string;
  getTypeDefinition(prop: EntityProperty, types?: Record<string, string>, lengths?: Record<string, number>): string;
  getUnsignedSuffix(prop: EntityProperty): string;
  supportsSchemaConstraints(): boolean;
  supportsSchemaMultiAlter(): boolean;
  supportsSequences(): boolean;
  quoteIdentifier(field: string): string;
  dropTable(meta: EntityMetadata): string;
  indexForeignKeys(): boolean;

}

Connection

Next part is connection wrapper, that will be responsible for querying the database:

import { Connection } from 'mikro-orm';

export class MyCustomConnection extends Connection {

  // implement abstract methods
  connect(): Promise<void>;
  isConnected(): Promise<boolean>;
  close(force?: boolean): Promise<void>;
  getDefaultClientUrl(): string;
  execute(query: string, params?: any[], method?: 'all' | 'get' | 'run'): Promise<QueryResult | any | any[]>;

}

Driver

Last part is driver, that is responsible for using the connection to persist changes to database. If you are building SQL driver, it might be handy to extend AbstractSqlDriver, if not, extend DatabaseDriver abstract class.

If you want to have absolute control, you can implement the whole driver yourself via IDatabaseDriver interface.

import { DatabaseDriver } from 'mikro-orm';

export class MyCustomSchemaHelper extends DatabaseDriver {

  // initialize connection and platform
  protected readonly connection = new MyCustomConnection(this.config);
  protected readonly platform = new MyCustomPlatform;

  // and implement abstract methods
  find<T extends IEntity>(entityName: string, where: FilterQuery<T>, populate?: string[], orderBy?: Record<string, QueryOrder>, limit?: number, offset?: number): Promise<T[]>;
  findOne<T extends IEntity>(entityName: string, where: FilterQuery<T> | string, populate: string[]): Promise<T | null>;
  nativeInsert<T extends IEntityType<T>>(entityName: string, data: EntityData<T>): Promise<QueryResult>;
  nativeUpdate<T extends IEntity>(entityName: string, where: FilterQuery<IEntity> | IPrimaryKey, data: EntityData<T>): Promise<QueryResult>;
  nativeDelete<T extends IEntity>(entityName: string, where: FilterQuery<IEntity> | IPrimaryKey): Promise<QueryResult>;
  count<T extends IEntity>(entityName: string, where: FilterQuery<T>): Promise<number>;

}