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Grails vs GraPHP: What are the differences?
Grails: An Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM. Grails is a framework used to build web applications with the Groovy programming language. The core framework is very extensible and there are numerous plugins available that provide easy integration of add-on features; GraPHP: *A PHP graph DB web framework *. The goal of this project is to build a lightweight web framework with a graph DB abstraction. It should be very easy to create the graph schema with no knowledge of of how the data is stored. Also, the schema should be incredibly flexible so you should never need migrations when adding new models (nodes), connections (edges), or data that lives in nodes.
Grails and GraPHP can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.
Grails and GraPHP are both open source tools. Grails with 2.48K GitHub stars and 945 forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than GraPHP with 135 GitHub stars and 5 GitHub forks.
Pros of Grails
- Groovy56
- Jvm40
- Rapid development38
- Gorm37
- Web framework30
- Open source25
- Plugins21
- Extensible17
- Easy17
- Dynamic14
- Clean architecture (Dependency Injection)6
- Gradle6
- Clear what everything does, lots of options5
- RAD4
- Agile4
- Great documentation4
- Android3
- Spring3
- Easy setup2
- Java web apps with steroid1
Pros of GraPHP
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Cons of Grails
- Frequent breaking changes3
- Undocumented features2