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Doctrine 2 vs MikroORM: What are the differences?
What is Doctrine 2? An object-relational mapper (ORM) for PHP 5.3.2+ that provides transparent persistence for PHP objects. Doctrine 2 sits on top of a powerful database abstraction layer (DBAL). One of its key features is the option to write database queries in a proprietary object oriented SQL dialect called Doctrine Query Language (DQL), inspired by Hibernates HQL.
What is MikroORM? TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. TypeScript ORM for Node.js based on Data Mapper, Unit of Work and Identity Map patterns. Supports MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and SQLite databases.
Doctrine 2 and MikroORM can be categorized as "Object Relational Mapper (ORM)" tools.
MikroORM is an open source tool with 705 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MikroORM's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Doctrine 2
- Great abstraction, easy to use, good docs14
- Object-Oriented10
- Easy setup7
Pros of MikroORM
- Typescript5
- Supports both SQL and NoSQL4
- Powered by Unit of Work and Identity Map3
- Allows multiple ways to define entities3
- DRY Entities3
- Implicit Transactions2
- SQL layer built on top of Knex2
- EntityGenerator to reverse engineer existing database2