title: eloquent query performance vs PDO
body: <p>I have simplest query with count:<br>
  <code>Client::where('active', 1)-&gt;count();</code></p>
  
  <p>There's only 20 rows in that <code>clients</code> table but query takes over 1 second to complete. I've checked and replaced this line with simple PDO query and it took a lot less (~0.015s).</p>
  
  <p>Is it normal for Eloquent to be so slow with relatively simple queries? Is there any way to make it more efficient? I've googled around but all the information I could find regards optimizing queries for big data sets. </p>