Re: ORMs comparisons/complaints.
On 12/22/2013 4:34 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/22/2013 4:20 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 12/22/2013 4:09 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/22/2013 4:04 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 12/22/2013 3:47 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/22/2013 3:38 PM, Arne Vajh?j wrote:
On 12/22/2013 3:17 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
On 12/22/2013 2:05 PM, Daniel Pitts wrote:
Hey everyone,
This is cross-posted to cl.java.programmer and cl.php.
I've been doing some thinking about my experiences with various
ORMs,
both positive and negative. I find that I often stretch systems to
there limits, and end up doing a lot of meta-programming to solve
problems that I've always felt should have been solved by the core
libraries. Mostly to follow DRY and KISS principals in the core
business code.
I'm curious if others' have found the same things I have, or if
they've
been satisfied doing things other ways, and if so what ORMs they
use.
I've had experience with the following Java ORMs:
* Hibernate (version 3, using Annotations for instance)
* Ibatis (many years ago, don't remember the version. around
2006)
* Straight JDBC. Not exactly an ORM :-)
And then one non-Java ORM: Doctrine, which is modeled after
Hibernate,
including most of its flaws, but missing some of its features.
So, my question to the groups, what ORMs have you used, and what
did
you
like and hate about each of them? I'm not trying to start a flame
war,
so please keep it to personal experiences with projects which used
them.
I'm interested in use-cases from simple small one-off
applications to
complex enterprise-level systems, and highly-scalable systems.
Please include details like "it's easier to maintain <x> type of
changes
with our approach, but <y> is very difficult" etc...
Is there a PHP question in there? I don't see one...
Doctrine is PHP. And the question is open ended so other PHP
ORM's could be included in discussion.
I still don't see a PHP question here. I see some product questions -
which would be better suited in a newsgroup for those applications.
Just because something uses PHP does not mean it is appropriate for a
PHP language newsgroup.
But I know some people don't believe in segregation of newsgroups and
think anything should be able to be asked in any newsgroup.
ORM's are not applications. They are libraries.
And since it is question asking for comparison, then a group
for a specific library is not a good choice.
Instead a group with people with experience and interest in
different ways of database access from PHP is needed.
comp.lang.php does not seem that far fetched.
Obviously comp.lang.php.databaseaccess or
comp.lang.php.databaseaccess.orm
would be even better if such exists.
Yes, an ORM-related newsgroup would be more appropriate. There you have
people who know the advantages and disadvantages of various ORM's.
ORM's are language specific. So it would need to be a PHP ORM group
to cover PHP.
Does one exist?
Few, if any, in the language-related newsgroups will have used an ORM,
and if they have, they have very limited experience.
That depends on the language.
In languages like Java and C# it would be >90% that have used an ORM.
It is probably much less in PHP as ORM's are not as widely used
in the PHP world.
But I suspect that Daniel even may be interested in knowing more
about why it is so.
If you want, you can talk all you want about it in c.l.j.p. But this
does not belong in c.l.p.
So you keep saying.
But just saying it does not make it correct.
I just googled and found the original comp.lang.php charter
from 2002.
I says:
"Since database connectivity is a large part of PHP, it will
be considered topical in comp.lang.php."
Unless you have changed the charter since then (Google can not
find that, but that does not prove that it does not exist), then
that means that ORM in PHP is on topic for comp.lang.php.
Arne
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