This article is targeted on Laravel beginners. No skills required whatsoever. Article is a tad opinionated, so take it with a grain of salt. Also, details are omitted for the sake of brevity.
In this article I will do the actual comparison as well as give several hints to get started.
If you’ve never heard of Doctrine, it is database abstraction layer. Sorta like Eloquent, but different type: Laravel is active record (AR), while Doctrine is object relational mapper (ORM).