When comparing Eloquent ORM vs Paris Orm, the Slant community recommends Eloquent ORM for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP ORMs?” Eloquent ORM is ranked 3rd while Paris Orm is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Eloquent ORM is:
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Pros
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.
Pro Fast learning curve
Laracast and other public resources can set up your learning curve as fast as possible.
Pro Stable
As the code hasn't been drastically changed in the past few years, there is no further learning required once its been learned once.
Pro Simple
Paris (and idiorm) is designed to be helpful on the simple tasks that would require a lot of code, then to get out of the way for complex tasks.
Pro Well documented
For such a simple ORM, its well documented.
Pro Fast
Only 2 files to load.
Pro Small
Paris Orm is a single file that sits on top of Idiorm which is also a single file.
Pro Framework Agnostic
Because of the small size, it can be attached to any framework or used by itself.
Cons
Con Too much magic methods
The debug hell.
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.
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