Hi Natanzon, Doctrine is good. check this post also http://www.geeganage.com/symfony-doctrine-emory-usage/ <http://www.geeganage.com/symfony-doctrine-emory-usage/>Propel is also good, but I think Doctrine is better. Thanks. On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:08 PM, Philip Thompson <philthathril@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > http://cakephp.org/ > > > On Jan 16, 2011, at 6:02 AM, Miriam Natanzon wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I want to choose an open-source ORM platform to use as a base for many > > different applications as a standard environment in my organization. ( we > > used DBI for PERL in the past). > > I saw and read about Doctrine - Does anyone have any positive/negative > > experience with it? Is it efficient enough (in the term of runtime)? > another > > recommend environment?? > > > > (I have to mention that we are working with relational-DB but not in all > > projects. maybe there is another environment that is more tailored to the > > case of just performing queries in constant syntax and security > checking?) > > > > thanks a lot!!! > > Miriam > -- *Ruwan Pradeep Geeganage (BCA, MSc (Reading)* * * *Skype *: ruwan.geeganage *Blog *: http://www.geeganage.com