Phalcon Features
- It is the fastest framework for PHP.
- It is a full stack open source framework.
- It can create independent framework.
- It requires less amount of code for specific task implementation.
- It provides ORM (Object Relational Mapping), templating engine, routing, caching etc.
- It is a loosely coupled framework, user can build a project with a directory structure as per the application requirement.
Comparison of other framework with Phalcon
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Yii2 |
ZEND1 |
CodeIgniter2 |
CakePHP |
Phalcon |
Best for |
Any project- small, medium, large |
Medium and Large Projects |
Any project- small, medium, large |
Small and Medium Projects |
Any project- small, medium, large |
Runs on |
PHP 5.4 |
PHP 5.2 |
PHP 5.1 |
PHP 5.2 |
PHP 5.4 |
License |
New BSD |
New BSD |
MIT |
MIT |
New BSD, AGPL |
Required Skills |
PHP5,OOP |
PHP5, OOP and awareness of design pattern |
PHP, Basic OOP |
PHP, OOP, ability to sort out framework |
PHP |
Speed |
Fast |
Light weight, easy customizable |
Agile, has a small footprint |
slow |
Super-fast |
Performance |
123.5 request per second |
103.2 request per second |
187.78 request per second |
54.97 request per second |
822.96 request per second |
Multiuser System |
Conditional |
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Yes |
Conditional |
Yes |
Database Supported |
- MySQl
- SQLite
- Microsoft Bl
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
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- Apache Derby
- IBM DB2
- MySQL
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
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- MySQl
- SQLite
- Microsoft Server
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- IBM DB2
- CUBRID
- JDBC
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- Firebird
- Redis
- Memcached
- Oracle
- PostgreSQl
- MongoDB
- MySQL
- SQLite
- Microsoft Bl
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- MySQl
- SQLite
- Microsoft Bl
- Oracle
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- MariaDB
- MemcacheDB
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Design Pattern |
DAO, MVC, HMVC,Active record, Observer |
MVC, Dependency Injection, Adapter, Action Controller |
Active, MVC, HMVC |
Active record, MVC, Event driven |
Dependency Injection, MVC, HMVC,Active record, Observer, Event driven |
Code Generator |
Yii CLI, Gii |
CLI |
Code generator console |
CLI |
CRUD,CLI |
Testing Library |
PHP unit, Selenium |
PHP unit |
PHP unit |
PHP unit |
PHP unit |
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