Consider alternatives to Doctrine for ORM

[skluck]

Doctrine is great, but complex.

There are some things it doesn't do super well:

• Migrations / Schema
• Entities from multiple libraries (E.g. modular db schema)
• Fine-tuning performance (e.g.control over nested/chained queries / lazy loading)
• Class/Namespace structure of entities

I like what I've seen out of Atlas ORM:
https://github.com/atlasphp/Atlas.Orm (doc example: http://atlasphp.io/mapper/domain.html)

Its goal is mapping data to and from the DB, but not your domain models. That is up to the application. Leaving that control in the hands of the app may gives us more control to tune and tweak things for our use cases, and be more concious of the data we fetch from the db.