PDO vs PEAR DB

For a pro­ject that we are curr­ent­ly imple­men­ting, we’­ve asked our­sel­ves what the best way to access the data­ba­se would be. So far, a num­ber of our pro­jects had been rea­li­zed with Pear DB, and that was most­ly okay. The cur­rent pro­ject needs to be reson­si­ve even under high ser­ver load, so we try to cut away all the slack we can. So we did a few benchmarks. 

Wow.

PDO, in cer­tain cases, is up to 4 times as fast as Pear DB.