Reduce Memory

Sometimes we need to load a huge amount of data into memory. For example:

$orders = Order::all();

But this can be slow if we have really huge data, because Laravel prepares objects of the Model class. In such cases, Laravel has a handy function toBase()

$orders = Order::toBase()->get();
//$orders will contain `Illuminate\Support\Collection` with objects `StdClass`.

By calling this method, it will fetch the data from the database, but it will not prepare the Model class. Keep in mind it is often a good idea to pass an array of fields to the get method, preventing all fields to be fetched from the database.