When comparing Lean Mapper vs Paris Orm, the Slant community recommends Paris Orm for most people. In the question“What are the best PHP ORMs?” Paris Orm is ranked 11th while Lean Mapper is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Paris Orm is:
As the code hasn't been drastically changed in the past few years, there is no further learning required once its been learned once.
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Pros
Pro Powerful and versatile ORM
Pro Open source
Pro Good & constant support
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 Smart relationship loading
Pro Support for a large number of databases
Since it uses Dibi, it supports all Dibi enabled databases, with MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL and more included.
Pro Framework Agnostic
Pro Friendly community
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.