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Jayadevan's avatar

Which model to use

I am new to php and Laravel. In the application I am supporting, some Models are using Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model and some are using Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model. Our database is MongoDB. Which one is better to use?

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Nakov's avatar

I think you should use this one Jenssegers\Mongodb\Eloquent\Model as it is probably a wrapper of the Eloquent one providing extra help for using a MongoDB as a database.

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