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cruzer/dolphin
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Dolphin ORM and Query Builder with Laravel Eloquent like syntax but very small footprint

v0.0.8(6y ago)070MITPHPPHP >=7.2

Since Jun 16Pushed 6y ago1 watchersCompare

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Dolphin ORM & Query Builder
===============================

[](#dolphin-orm--query-builder)

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A lightweight Database Query builder and ORM for PHP 7 without any external dependency(only PDO is required). API looks quite same as of Laravel's Eloquent but without the complexity.

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Easy to use and rememberable syntax
- Uses prepared statements
- Method chaining
- Support multiple database driver through PDO
- Support join(), leftJoin(), rightJoin(), crossJoin()
- Supprts where(), whereIn(), whereNotIn(), whereNull(), whereNotNull(), whereRaw()
- Support groupBy(), having(), orderBy()
- Supports offset() and limit()
- Supports the shortcuts for retreiving data such as first(), last(), min(), max(), avg()
- Supports count()
- insert()
- update()
- delete()
- truncate()

Not yet Supported
-----------------

[](#not-yet-supported)

- union()
- exists()
- orWhere()
- events support
- transactions support

Tests
-----

[](#tests)

Tests are still pending.

Inspirations
------------

[](#inspirations)

Initialy, I created it for the CruzerMini to interact with the database because I was looking for a good library like Laravel's Eloquent but with small footprint. I tried severals but found nothing that has the nice syntax as Eloquent. Thats why it inspired me to create it.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/CruzerSoftwares/Dolphin/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please email  instead of using the issue tracker.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [RN Kushwaha](https://github.com/RNKushwaha022)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](https://github.com/CruzerSoftwares/Dolphin/blob/master/LICENSE) for more information.

Buy me a coffee
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###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~24 days

Recently: every ~46 days

Total

9

Last Release

2329d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a297bb1be496ee5fe03ed6313af33b8ec95abc4955c110b8af705cb0b239bd56?d=identicon)[RNKushwaha022](/maintainers/RNKushwaha022)

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Top Contributors

[![RNKushwaha](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8594388?v=4)](https://github.com/RNKushwaha "RNKushwaha (50 commits)")

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