Yii vs. Geddy vs. Phalcon

Yii comes with: MVC, DAO/ActiveRecord, I18N/L10N, caching, authentication and role-based access control, scaffolding, testing, etc. It can reduce your development time significantly.

Geddy is a full stack open source MVC framework based on ruby on rails methodology with built-in authentication module, passportjs and socket.io integration.

Phalcon is a web framework implemented as a C extension offering high performance and lower resource consumption.