Play vs Kohana

Overview

Play

Stacks752

Followers609

Votes496

GitHub Stars12.6K

Forks4.1K

Kohana

Stacks57

Followers42

Votes15

GitHub Stars1.5K

Forks422

Kohana vs Play: What are the differences?

What is Kohana? An elegant HMVC PHP5 framework. Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.

What is Play? The High Velocity Web Framework For Java and Scala. Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.

Kohana and Play can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

"Open source" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Kohana, while over 73 developers mention "Scala" as the leading cause for choosing Play.

Kohana and Play are both open source tools. It seems that Play with 11.2K GitHub stars and 3.77K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Kohana with 1.61K GitHub stars and 464 GitHub forks.

According to the StackShare community, Play has a broader approval, being mentioned in 112 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to Kohana, which is listed in 3 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Play, Kohana

Leonardo

Project manager and web developer at Revo Digital

Mar 22, 2021

Needs adviceon

TypeScript

Rails

Scala

In the past few months, a project we're working on grew up quite fast. Since we're adding more and more features, I'm considering migrating my Express/TS REST API towards a more solid and more "enterprise-like" framework. Since I am experienced with TypeScript but not so much with Rails nor Play (Scala), I'd like to have some advice on which one could provide the best development experience, and most importantly, the smoothest paradigm transition from the JS/TS world. I've worked on some personal project with Rails, but I've found the Ruby language really distant from what the TypeScript ecosystem and syntax are, whereas on the opposite - during the brief tours I've taken in the past weeks - it's been a pleasure coding in Scala. Obviously, there are some key differences between the two languages - and the two frameworks consequently - but despite all the ROR automation and ease of use I don't despise at all Scala's pragmatic and great features such as static typing, pattern matching, and type inference. So... Please help me out with the choice! Regards

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Hosam

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 18, 2021

Review

If software performance is your top priority, then Scala/Play is probably best. If developer productivity is your top priority, then Ruby on Rails is the best choice in my opinion.

The Rails framework is batteries-included. The framework takes care of many things by default so that you don't have to. Logging, security, etc. It's also well-integrated; for example, controllers understand models out of the box. I had a better experience with RoR than with Play.

On the other hand, Scala and the JVM are more performant in general, so they can scale to serve more requests per second on the same hardware.

If you're considering serverless functions, then Scala is probably a better choice because it would be faster to load, giving you better economics.

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Detailed Comparison

Play	Kohana
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.	Kohana is an elegant, open source, and object oriented HMVC framework built using PHP5, by a team of volunteers. It aims to be swift, secure, and small.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 12.6K	GitHub Stars 1.5K
GitHub Forks 4.1K	GitHub Forks 422
Stacks 752	Stacks 57
Followers 609	Followers 42
Votes 496	Votes 15
Pros & Cons
Pros 81 Scala 55 Web-friendly architecture 55 Built on akka 50 Stateless 47 High-scalable Cons 3 Evolves fast, keep up with releases 1 Unnecessarily complicated	Pros 4 Open source 3 Cascading filesystem 3 Efficient and lightweight 2 Extensible 2 Easy to understand PHP framework
Integrations
No integrations available	PHP

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Django

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Laravel

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.NET

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ASP.NET Core

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