title: Laravel Eloquent vs DB facade: Why use Eloquent and decrease performance?
body: <p>I did some performance tests between <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/queries" rel="noreferrer">Laravel's DB facade query builder</a> and <a href="https://laravel.com/docs/eloquent" rel="noreferrer">Laravel's Eloquent ORM</a>. The DB facade was much faster than Eloquent for many SQL statements (SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT).</p>
  <p>So why would someone use the slower Laravel Eloquent rather than the faster DB facade?</p>