Laravel Integration with YugabyteDB

[ashetkar]

Jira Link: DB-1440 This issue tracks all the work related to Laravel Integration with YugabyteDB.

Tasks

Done	Name	Notes	GitHub Issue
✅	Test Laravel's quickstart example with YugabyteDB
	Run Laravel test suite	Reached out in Laravel Forum for steps to run Postgres specific tests
	Provide YugabyteDB-specific extension/plugin/etc.
	Add test cases
✅	Documentation on Yugabyte site
	Blog on Yugabyte site

[JohnDotOwl]

@ashetkar is this still active?

[ashetkar]

Yes. @nchandrappa can provide more details.

[nchandrappa]

@rainbowhat Here is the PR for Laravel example with YugabyteDB - https://github.com/yugabyte/orm-examples/pull/71. The GitHub issue is still active, we do want to introduce native support YBDB in laravel when we create YSQL smart driver for PHP.

If you have knowledge of running Laravel test-suite against YB, please feel free to reach out to us. Thanks

[tpetry]

I am maintaining an enhanced PostgreSQL driver for driver which is adding support for PostgreSQL-specific features to Laravel one by one which are not part of the Laravel core and will never be because 80% of the Laravel community is using MySQL.

I could add support for Yugabyte if it's not too far from my goal for PostgreSQL support. Which parts of Yugabyte are currently incompatible with Laravel and which specific features are missing in your opinion?

To be more specific. In which parts is Yugabyte extending the PostgreSQL SQL feature set? I believe just looking at SQL they are identical (with some parts in YugaByte). Am I wrong?

[nchandrappa]

@tpetry YugabyteDB YSQL provides close compatibility with Postgres dialect. As you're building an enhanced driver, YugabyteDB Smart drivers have an additional load-balancing capability across all the YugabyteDB cluster nodes.

This is something that we want to enable in all the language drivers. Let us know if you want to bring this YugabyteDB feature into the driver.