What is the best alternative to RedBeanPHP?
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.
Pro 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.
Pro 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.
Con 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.
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.
Pro Large community
Sometimes your issue can be hard to find, but certainty it was already answered before.
Pro Good documentation
While hard to find, the Laravel's Docs and API documentation are very good.
Con 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.
Con Low performance
Eloquent tries to do too much magic, it gets slower than some concurrents.
Con Too much magic methods
The debug hell.
Pro 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.
Pro Support for a large number of databases
Since it uses PDO, it supports all PDO enabled databases, with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Oracle included.
Con Backward compatibiliy breaks
Since it's based on PHP 5.4+, using an older version of PHP may cause issues.
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