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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
  1. 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.