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Intuitive & Fluent API
Designed with the developer in mind. Its clean and consistent API lets you manage translations with expressive, readable code, allowing you to get started quickly and maintain your projects with ease.
Performant & Scalable
Built for speed and scalability. By partially bypassing Eloquent's overhead for direct database queries, this package delivers lightning-fast performance with minimal memory usage, even when handling millions of translations.
Why another Laravel translation package?
While packages like spatie/laravel-translatable and astrotomic/laravel-translatable are powerful, they all make a trade-off. This package is built for raw performance and a clean, focused developer experience by using direct, indexed database queries instead of relying on JSON columns or Eloquent model hydration.
| aaix/eloquent-translatable | spatie/laravel-translatable | astrotomic/laravel-translatable | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage | Dedicated Table | JSON Column | Dedicated Table |
| Performance | High (Scalable) | Fastest (Single Record Reads) | High (Eloquent) |
| Simplicity | Minimal API, Zero-Config Logic | Requires managing JSON paths & complex queries | Requires extra Translation Model class |
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🚀 Performance Comparison 🚀
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| Test Case | aaix | astrotomic | spatie |
|---------------------------------|--------------|-------------------------|-------------------------|
| Read: Access 1st Translation | 1.70 ms | 1.65 ms (-3.1%) | 0.55 ms (-68.0%) |
| Read: Find by Translation | 1.01 ms | 1.20 ms (+18.6%) | 0.89 ms (-12.6%) |
| Read: Eager Load 50 Products | 1.97 ms | 2.82 ms (+43.3%) | 1.16 ms (-40.9%) |
| Write: Create + 1 Translation | 1.27 ms | 1.73 ms (+36.0%) | 1.04 ms (-17.7%) |
| Write: Create + All Transl. | 1.45 ms | 3.80 ms (+162.8%) | 1.03 ms (-28.6%) |
| Write: Update 1 Translation | 0.77 ms | 0.82 ms (+7.0%) | 0.41 ms (-46.2%) |
======================================================================================================SUPERIOR Database Performance
By using direct, indexed database queries instead of parsing JSON or hydrating countless Eloquent models, operations are significantly faster and use a fraction of the memory. This is not a minor improvement; it's a fundamental architectural advantage for applications at scale.
BETTER Data Integrity
Translations are stored in a clean, normalized, and dedicated table. This provides better data integrity and structure than a single JSON column and avoids the performance pitfalls of a full Eloquent-relation approach.
SIMPLER Developer Experience
The API is designed to be minimal, intuitive, and predictable. With a single command to set up your migrations and a fluent, easy-to-understand set of methods, you get the power you need without the complexity you don't. No magic, just performance.