PhalconPHP Benchmarks

The official benchmarks are five years old—too old to be valid now, but even then you can see dramatically what distinguishes PhalconPHP. Let’s look at something newer. In a 2016 comparison, Phalcon places top five—an obvious leader among the professional frameworks, and conceding only to raw PHP and some micro frameworks.

So, Phalcon is fast. Raw PHP is also fast, but we need all the facilities that an MVC framework has to offer, and Phalcon rises to the challenge, including components such as:

• ORM
• Volt template Engine
• Dependency Injection (DI) Container
• Caching
• Logging
• Routing systems
• Security block
• Autoloader
• Forms module

That’s just to name a few. To cut a long story short, PhalconPHP has everything you need to build a big enterprise application such as a RESTful API for a high-load system.

One more nice thing about Phalcon is its tiny style—just compare Phalcon ORM and enormous Doctrine 2.