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CakePHP vs N2O

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When comparing CakePHP vs N2O, the Slant community recommends N2O for most people. In the question“What are the best backend web frameworks?” N2O is ranked 29th while CakePHP is ranked 49th.

Specs

Default ORMDefault ORM included out of the box

Default Template EngineCakePHP Template

PHP version5.4.16+

Default ORMKVS

Default Template EngineNITRO

EncodingsJSON, BERT/ETF, XML

HostsCOWBOY, EMQ

Initial Release0.4

PriceFREE

ProtocolsHEART, FTP, NITRO

SecurityHMAC AES/CBC-128

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What are the best backend web frameworks?

Pros

Pro
Built-in ORM that's easy to use

Cake has a built-in ORM which is pretty easy to use and learn. Building queries can also be done very easily and fetching entire columns can be done in one or two lines of code.

Pro
Fast development

Developing in CakePHP is very fast and flexible.

CakePHP is about fast and reliable development, it achieves this by following the convention over configuration principle as it's heavily inspired by Rails (which follows the same programming paradigm).

Convention over configuration is all about making it easier for the developer to start immediately writing code without worrying on what's going on "under the hood".

Pro
Large library of helper classes

CakePHP has a large library of helper classes with features such as:

Authorization
AJAX
Forms
E-mails
Internationalization
etc...

Pro
Exhaustive list of resources to learn CakePHP

Cake's great community has thrown together an exhaustive and amazing list of resources to get started with CakePHP. It's open source and can be found on GitHub.

Pro
Open Source

CakePHP open source and is licensed under the MIT license.

Pro
Fast binary data

Pro
Binary encoding and protocols

Here is a list of types of endpoints which are supported by EMQ and accesible to N2O apps: WebSockets, MQTT, MQTT-SN, TCP, UDP, CoAP. Normal use of N2O as a Web Framework or a Web Application Server is through WebSockets, but for IoT and MQTT applications it could be served through UDP or SCTP protocols providing application level message delivery consistency.