What is the best alternative to RedBeanPHP?

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score 26 · Answer 1

Eloquent ORM

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No own datamapping

You gotta install plugins to be able to map your eloquent models; or you can use mutators, that results in very ugly model classes. See More

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Large community

Sometimes your issue can be hard to find, but certainty it was already answered before. See More

Top Con

Low performance

Eloquent tries to do too much magic, it gets slower than some concurrents. See More

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Good documentation

While hard to find, the Laravel's Docs and API documentation are very good. See More

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Too much magic methods

The debug hell. See More

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score 28 · Answer 2

Doctrine ORM

Top Pro

Easy to find support

Doctrine is considered the most popular PHP ORM out there. As such, it has a big community which brings a lot of perks. Namely a great deal of learning resources and it's easier to find help for any issue you might have. See More

Top Con

Requires learning a new query language

Since you need to know DQL to use Doctrine to its full potential, you need to take the time to learn and get used to it. See More

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Should feel familiar to Java developers

Since Doctrine is inspired by Hibernate, a very popular Java ORM. It should feel very familiar to Java developers who need to use a PHP ORM, especially if they have used Hibernate before. See More

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May be overkill for small projects

Since it's a fairly large library, it would be a bit of an overkill to be used in a small project. Since for example it wouldn't really make much sense for the ORM to take up to half of the project's size. See More

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Provides a flexible alternative to SQL

Doctrine implements its own object-oriented SQL dialect called DQL. It's inspired by Hibernate's HQL and it provides developers with a powerful alternative which helps in gaining flexibility without having to resort to code duplication. See More

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Good, constant support

Doctrine is the default ORM for Symphony, one of the most widely used PHP frameworks. This means that it's rather well-supported and will continue to be supported at least for as long as Symphony is. See More

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score 15 · Answer 3

Propel

Top Pro

Powerful and versatile ORM

It requires some learning curve, but at the end it's a powerful and versatile ORM. We've been using it for a very big database in a realtime multi-frontend app with zero issues. See More

Top Con

Backward compatibiliy breaks

Since it's based on PHP 5.4+, using an older version of PHP may cause issues. See More

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Simple to learn

Propel uses Active Record, which is a rather simple to understand implementation of an ORM. It's also the most widely adopted implementation. In simple words: an object represents a row, you can create or edit an object to create or edit the corresponding row. See More

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Support for a large number of databases

Since it uses PDO, it supports all PDO enabled databases, with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle included. See More

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