Phalcon Features

It is the fastest framework for PHP.
It is a full stack open source framework.
It can create independent framework.
It requires less amount of code for specific task implementation.
It provides ORM (Object Relational Mapping), templating engine, routing, caching etc.
It is a loosely coupled framework, user can build a project with a directory structure as per the application requirement.

Comparison of other framework with Phalcon

	Yii2	ZEND1	CodeIgniter2	CakePHP	Phalcon
Best for	Any project- small, medium, large	Medium and Large Projects	Any project- small, medium, large	Small and Medium Projects	Any project- small, medium, large
Runs on	PHP 5.4	PHP 5.2	PHP 5.1	PHP 5.2	PHP 5.4
License	New BSD	New BSD	MIT	MIT	New BSD, AGPL
Required Skills	PHP5,OOP	PHP5, OOP and awareness of design pattern	PHP, Basic OOP	PHP, OOP, ability to sort out framework	PHP
Speed	Fast	Light weight, easy customizable	Agile, has a small footprint	slow	Super-fast
Performance	123.5 request per second	103.2 request per second	187.78 request per second	54.97 request per second	822.96 request per second
Multiuser System	Conditional		Yes	Conditional	Yes
Database Supported	MySQl SQLite Microsoft Bl Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB	Apache Derby IBM DB2 MySQL Oracle PostgreSQL	MySQl SQLite Microsoft Server Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB IBM DB2 CUBRID JDBC	Firebird Redis Memcached Oracle PostgreSQl MongoDB MySQL SQLite Microsoft Bl	MySQl SQLite Microsoft Bl Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB MariaDB MemcacheDB
Design Pattern	DAO, MVC, HMVC,Active record, Observer	MVC, Dependency Injection, Adapter, Action Controller	Active, MVC, HMVC	Active record, MVC, Event driven	Dependency Injection, MVC, HMVC,Active record, Observer, Event driven
Code Generator	Yii CLI, Gii	CLI	Code generator console	CLI	CRUD,CLI
Testing Library	PHP unit, Selenium	PHP unit	PHP unit	PHP unit	PHP unit