ATK Data vs Eloquent

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ATK Data		Eloquent
	Project
-	Mentions	8
270	Stars	2,648
0.7%	Growth	0.6%
8.6	Activity	9.3
about 19 hours ago	Latest Commit	1 day ago
PHP	Language	PHP
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ATK Data

Posts with mentions or reviews of ATK Data. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning ATK Data yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Eloquent

Posts with mentions or reviews of Eloquent. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-19.

Recommend a pre-written framework for basic, local, offline xampp-based software?
2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 19 Feb 2023

Eloquent (docs for query builder and ORM) or Doctrine (docs for (ddbal query builder) and ORM - note, these are separate libraries, but the ORM includes dbal).
Suggestions for MySQL wrapper or helper or interface library for PHP?
5 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 12 Oct 2022
Laravel mixins
3 projects | dev.to | 26 Jul 2022
laravel migration as separate package
1 project | /r/laravel | 3 Jun 2022

You can use the database component: https://github.com/illuminate/database
“The most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I’ve ever seen“
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Sep 2021

A similar example: in Laravel's codebase, every line in a doc block is 3 characters shorter than the line above it.
Example: https://github.com/illuminate/database/blob/master/Eloquent/...
[Part 3/100] Eloquent sucks
2 projects | dev.to | 28 Aug 2021

View on GitHub
[Junior Developer] Can someone code-review my project?
4 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 17 Apr 2021
IMHO: JSX > PHP Templating
6 projects | /r/PHP | 20 Mar 2021

In this case, getting started might be rough unless you know Laravel well, because there's not even a readme there (in contrast to e.g. https://github.com/illuminate/database#illuminate-database which has a clear guide how to use it)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ATK Data and Eloquent you can also consider the following projects:

ProxyManager - 🎩✨🌈 OOP Proxy wrappers/utilities - generates and manages proxies of your objects

Doctrine - Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM)

RedBean - ORM layer that creates models, config and database on the fly

Propel - Propel2 is an open-source high-performance Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) for modern PHP

Idiorm - A lightweight nearly-zero-configuration object-relational mapper and fluent query builder for PHP5.

Medoo - The lightweight PHP database framework to accelerate the development.

Atlas.Orm - A data mapper implementation for your persistence model in PHP.

Cake ORM - [READ-ONLY] A flexible, lightweight and powerful Object-Relational Mapper for PHP, implemented using the DataMapper pattern. This repo is a split of the main code that can be found in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp

LazyRecord - The fast ORM for PHP. (This is a history repo, please visit maghead/maghead)