Is Doctrine really that slow than PDO?
doctrine, doctrine-orm, pdo, php
Solution
Doctrine 2 + PHP 5.3+ improved greatly the speed of Doctrine.
However, you will never be close to PDO beacause it is not the same thing : do you want to query your database or do you want to automatically map your database to PHP Objects and then use objects in your code ?
- For development quality, ease and speed : use Doctrine
- For runtime speed : don't use an ORM
Problem
I have recently learned about PDO and and Doctrine 2.2.2 to build an application. but i'will work with some critical constraints in my environment( a lot of data , connexion speed ...etc) i know that Doctrine have a PDO layer,so maybe PDO is faster but i want to work with a Real ORM Framework like Hibernate. after reading this post Benchmark PDO vs Doctrine I have to know if Doctrine is [ very ] slow than PDO. Thank you