🆚 Kohana vs. Yii Framework
- 📈 Yii Framework is much more popular than Kohana.
- 🌍 Yii Framework is more popular in all countries.
- ⭐ Kohana is particularly popular in Poland.
Statistics based on 3.6M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Backend framework
Backend framework
About
Kohana is a deprecated open-source 
PHP framework that was last updated in 2016. It is no longer maintained, though a community fork called Koseven continues support for projects still using the framework.
Yii is an open-source, object-oriented, component-based MVC PHP web application framework.
It includes an implementation of the Active Record design pattern for database interaction, RESTful API support, multi-tier caching, role-based access control, and Gii, a code generation tool.
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Pricing
Free ✔️ Open source
Free ✔️ Open source
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Yii Framework technology is 121 times more popular than Kohana.
Total websites
Market share
Backend Frameworks
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Yii Framework is more popular than Kohana in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Russia
Netherlands
Belgium
Germany
Ukraine
Australia
Switzerland
Canada
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belgium in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Uzbekistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Kazakhstan in the Backend Frameworks category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Belarus in the Backend Frameworks category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Yii Framework is more popular than Kohana in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Health
Real Estate
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Symfony
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ThinkPHP🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,604,716 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.