Laravel vs. CodeIgniter

Title	Laravel	CodeIgniter
Category	Web application framework	Web application framework
Preference	51% votes	49% votes
Website	laravel.​com	ellislab.​com/​codeigniter
License	MIT License	MIT License
Features
Scaffolding	Yes	Yes
Full text search	Yes	Yes
Architecture
Development principles	Convention over configuration Test-driven development Don't repeat yourself	Wiki way
Design pattern	Active-Record Model-View-Controller Dependency injection Observer Singleton Facade Event-Driven RESTfull	Model-View-Controller Active-Record Hooking Chain of responsibility HMVC
Multilingual
Multilingual content	Yes	Yes
System requirements
Operating system	Cross-platform	Cross-platform
Programming language	PHP	PHP
Database	SQLite MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Microsoft BI	JDBC Compatible Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Oracle OrientDB IBM DB2 Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 CUBRID Microsoft BI MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB
Memory recommended	1 GB	256 MB
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Description	A Framework For Web Artisans	?
Tag	MVC, Dependency Injection, Namespaces	MVC
Multi-user system	Yes	Yes
Autofocus	Yes	Yes
Pingback	Yes	Yes
Extension/Plug-in	Yes	Yes
Image processing engin	Yes	Yes
Interpreter	Yes	Yes
Trackback	Yes	Conditional
Database model	Object-oriented	Relational NoSQL
Transactions	Yes	Yes
Unicode	Yes	Yes
Angle viewing	★★★★★	★★★★★
WYSIWYG-Editor	Yes	Yes
Multiple projects	Yes	Yes
Standard compliance	Yes	Yes
External pages	No	Yes
User statistics	Yes	Yes
Revision control	Yes	Yes
Atomicity	Yes	Yes
Isolation	Yes	Yes
Horizontal scalable	Yes	Yes
Template language	Blade PHP	PHP Proprietary
Target audience	Web Development	Government SMB Web Development Beginner Entreprise Employees, Customers, Vendors
Difficulty level	Master Advanced Intermediate Beginner	Beginner
Application startup time	2 ms	0 s
Version number	5.0	2.1.4 / 3.0 DEV
PSR-0 compliant	Yes	No
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM)	Yes	Yes
Machine Code Generation	Yes	Yes
Release Date	2010	2006
Documentation level	★★★★☆	★★★★★
E-Mail protocols	SMTP IMAP POP3	IMAP POP3 SMTP
Multi tasking	Yes	Yes
RESTful	Yes	Yes
Lines of code	6 k	?
Code Generation	Yes	No
Dynamic typing	Yes	Yes
Composite keys	Yes	Yes
Programming paradigm	Object-oriented Event-driven Functional	Object-oriented
Comments	Yes	Yes
Multiple categories	Yes	Yes
Hierarchical menus	Yes	Yes
Scripting language support	PHP JavaScript	PHP
Free to use	Yes	Yes
Frontend	PHP	PHP
Backend	PHP	PHP
Active	Yes	Yes
Supported VCS	Git Subversion	Git
Database Connection Pooling	Yes	Yes
Separate Service Layer	Yes	Yes
Web Flows	Yes	Yes
Creation Date	2011	28ᵗʰ February 2006
Community Driven	Excellent	Good
Wizard	Yes	Yes
HTML syntax	Yes	Yes
WSDL	Yes	Yes
Reliability	★★★★☆	★★★★★
Sync file manager	Good	?
Versioning	Good	Good
Data encryption	Yes	Yes
Custom queries	Excellent	Excellent
Input Widgets	Yes	Yes
Layout Structure Template	Yes	Yes
File Assets	Yes	Yes
API	Excellent	Good
Compiled language	No	No
XML Aware	Good	Good
Client/Server code reuse	Model-View-Controller Template language Web services	Model-View-Controller Template language
Data storage	Relational DB File System	Relational DB XML in Database MongoDB Postgres
Native driver	PHP	PHP
Batch Processing	Yes	Yes
Cloud platform support	Google App Engine Amazon EC2 Fortrabbit Pagoda Box digital ocean Heroku Linode OpenShift	Heroku OpenShift digital ocean dotCloud Amazon EC2
Admin Generator	Yes	No
Function Based Index	Yes	?
Compiler	Yes	No
Library file size	17 MB	4.1 MB
API comprehensibility	★★★★★	★★★★★
Webmail	Yes	No
Jobs Oportunities	★★★★☆	★★★★★
Implementation flexibility	42% votes	58% votes
Out-of-the-box functionality	42% votes	58% votes
Throttling	Yes	?
Bundle system	Yes	Yes
SOA	Yes	Yes
Annotation Support	Yes	Yes
LDAP	Yes	Yes
Query Cache	Yes	Yes
Realtime	Yes	Yes
Data Security	Yes	Yes
Community feedback	★★★★★	★★★★★
Ease of use	★★★★★	★★★★★
Highly Available	Yes	?
Malicious Injection Prevention	Yes	Yes
Openshift Paas Support	Yes	Yes
Geospatial elements	Yes	Yes
Copy, Cut and Paste Support	Yes	Yes
Free for commercial use	Yes	Yes
Realtime Server Push	Yes	Yes
Easy of Use	Yes	Yes
Sexiness	100	?
Bitmap index	Yes	?
Uncompressed Size	2 MB	4.18 MB
JVM	No	No
Open Source	Yes	Yes
Content Preview	Yes	Yes
Web Developer Toolbar	Yes	?
IntelliSense	Yes	Yes
XQuery Support	Yes	Yes
Magic	Yes	?
Websocket Support	Yes	Yes
Maven support	No	?
Resource File Processing	Yes	?
Events Support	Yes	Yes
Lambda Expressions	No	Yes
Language Integrated Query	Yes	Yes
Partial Classes	Yes	?
Closures	Yes	Yes
actors	10ᵗʰ January 2015	?
Perfomance	★★★★★	★★★★★
Database migrations	Yes	Yes
I like it	Yes	Yes
Asyncronous JS loading	Yes	No
JavaScript Library included	No	Yes
Debug Mode	Yes	Yes
Static Typing	Yes	Yes
Cloud-enabled	Yes	Yes
Click & Edit in Place / WYSIWYG	No	Yes
Archive	Yes	Yes
API Reports	Yes	Yes
API Test Control	Yes	Yes
Autocomplete Code	Yes	Yes
Dependency Injection	Yes	Yes
NodeJitsu Support	Yes	?
Personalization	Yes	Yes
Supported from Google	Yes	Yes
Makes you angry	No	No
Easy to Learn	Yes	Yes
Extensibility	Yes	Yes
Unit Testing	Yes	Yes
Ajax	Yes	Yes
User management	Yes	Yes
JavaScript Event Binding	Yes	Yes
ORM Join Support	Yes	Yes
Object-Oriented Views	Yes	Yes
View reloading	Yes	No
Object Oriented Models	Yes	Yes
Model Conditions	Yes	Yes
Mobile ready	Yes	Yes
Administrator responsive?	Yes	?
module	Yes	Yes
PDF Support	Yes	Yes
ACL	Yes	Yes
Markdown	Yes	?
Requests per second	100	?
Operating system server	Cross-platform	Cross-platform
Package Manager	Yes	Yes
Makes developer create a slew of inefficient Javascript	No	No
Easy Setup	No	Yes
Jquery	Yes	Yes
jQuery Support	Yes	Yes
Modules/Extensions/Plugins	8 000	2 000
ACL	Yes	Yes
Stored Procedure	Yes	?
Costanzia	Yes	?
Vertically Scalable	Yes	?
Full-Stack	Yes	No
User-friendly	Yes	Yes
SEO	Yes	Yes
Component Oriented	Yes	?
Internationalization	Yes	Yes
Heroku Support	Yes	?
Framework specific vocabulary	Yes	Yes
Easy to Config	Yes	Yes
Self Server	Yes	?
Will get you a job	Yes	Yes
Is reliable and secure	Yes	Yes
Scalability	Yes	Yes
Ability to link to external programs and systems	Yes	Yes
Supported by Microsoft	No	Yes
XSS	Yes	Yes
Official IDE Support	Yes	Yes
Amount of letters	7	2
Use components elsewhere?	Yes	No
Hot deployment	Yes	Yes
Can function without AJAX	Yes	Yes
Dynamic Language	Yes	Yes
Namespaces	Yes	Yes
Sexy	Yes	Yes
Inbuilt Captcha	No	Yes
wtf mode	Yes	Yes
CKDI - All the Cool Kids Do It	Yes	?
Will make super models fall in love with you	Yes	No
MVC	Yes	Yes
WillGetYouLaid	Yes	No
24/7 support	Yes	No
Average Salary	1	?
Developed for Human	Yes	Yes
Arrogant Creator	Yes	Yes
Fucking awesome	Yes	Yes
LIVE	Yes	Yes
Possibility to get laid	Yes	?
ORM that doesn't hurt	Yes	Yes
Actual chances of getting laid regardless	Yes	?
Edible	No	No
DrivesYouCrazy	Yes	?
Is VsChart totally worthless?	Yes	Yes
♥	Yes	Yes
Increase Stress Levels	Yes	Yes
SQL Injection Support	Yes	Yes
deprecated	No	?
Developer	126 489	261 432
Like a Madafaka ?	Yes	?
Makes your hair fall	No	Yes
Looks good on resumé	Yes	Yes
gonna turn my brown eyes blue?	Yes	No
People in suits	Yes	?
Made Crazy Developer	Yes	Yes
Benchod	Yes	?
Works with FIRSTCLASS	Yes	No
PORRA NEGÃO (HU3HU3 BR)	No	?
Proves You Can Code?	Yes	Yes
JOHA	Yes	?
Blue	Yes	?
Tinha que ser BR	0 B	?
esoteric	No	?
Nível Piriguete	50 W	?
Clean	Yes	Yes
Atractive	Yes	?
Love Banana	Yes	?
Will get you a girlfriend	No	No
Ai Dentu	Yes	?
Liked by non-geeks	Yes	?
san	Yes	?
Documentation a bit pooey?	Yes	No
Will milk your cat	Yes	No
STD	Yes	No
WWJD	Yes	?
Pee For You	No	?
Energy consumption	?	★★★★☆
Adobe Flash Support	?	Yes
Popularity	(0% global votes)	(33% global votes)
REPL	?	Yes
2 Letter Country Code	?	22
Air play support	?	No
Custom Themes	?	Yes
FAL support	?	No
Allowed number of content elements	?	Yes
HLP	?	1
Generic Views	?	Yes
Model flexible type support	?	Yes
Android App	?	No
unnecessary features	?	Yes
Responsive Website	?	Yes
Do the coffee	?	Yes
3D Support	?	Yes
:)	?	Yes
State of the art technology	?	Yes
Make life easier	?	Yes
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