1. Doctrine ORM v2.5.2
2. Eloquent ORM (illuminate/database) v4.2.17
3. FuelPHP Orm 1.7.3
4. Phalcon ORM 2.0.8
5. Propel ORM 2.0-dev
6. Yii ActiveRecord 1.1.16
7. Yii ActiveRecord 2.0.6

These are my benchmarks, not yours. I encourage you to run on your (production equivalent) environments.

• CentOS 6.6 64bit (VM; VirtualBox with Vagrant Synced folder)
  • PHP 5.5.30 (Remi RPM)
    • Zend OPcache v7.0.4-dev
  • MySQL 5.1
  • Apache 2.2

(2015-12-10)

If you are interested in other resutls, see OTHER_RESULTS.md.

(1) Install this repository and install composer packages.

$ git clone https://github.com/kenjis/php-orm-benchmark.git
$ cd php-orm-benchmark
$ composer install

You may skip Phalcon by running composer install --ignore-platform-reqs, if you do not have it installed.

(2) Set public folder as your web document root. If you access http://localhost/, you can see the results graph.

(3) Create database php_dev and import schema schema/php_dev.sql.

(4) Configure fuel/app/config/development/db.php.

(5) Generate config file for Propel.

$ bin/setup.propel2.sh

(6) Run benchmarks.

$ php oil r benchmark

See http://localhost/.

You can get markdown table for the results.

$ php oil r show:result_table

• Doctrine ORM
• Eloquent ORM
• FuelPHP 1.x Orm
• Phalcon ORM
• Propel 2
• Yii 1 ActiveRecord
• Yii 2 ActiveRecord

• François Zaninotto php-orm-benchmark with updated vendors
• PHP Framework Benchmark
• PHP User Agent Parser Benchmarks