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Overview

This page summarizes the technologies we use. For more detailed information, see the System Requirements:

  • [Version 2.0.x]({{ site.gdeurl }}install-gde/system-requirements.html)
  • Version 2.1.x

Magento's highly modular structure includes the following open-source technologies.

Web servers

  • Apache
  • nginx

PHP

  • Composer (dependency management package for PHP)

Database

  • MySQL
  • MySQL Percona

HTTP accelerator

  • Varnish

Cache Storage

  • Redis
  • Memcache

Search

  • Solr (Magento Enterprise Edition only)
  • Elasticsearch (Magento Enterprise Edition version 2.1.x only)

Additional technologies

  • HTML5
  • CSS3 (LESS CSS pre-processor)
  • jQuery (primary JavaScript library)
  • RequireJS (library that helps load JavaScript resources on demand)
  • Knockout.js (simplifies JavaScript UIs with the Model-View-View Model pattern)
  • Third-party libraries (Zend Framework 1, Zend Framework 2, Symfony)
  • Coding standards PSR-0 (autoloading standard), PSR-1 (basic coding standards), and PSR-2 (coding style guide), PSR-3, PSR-4

Optional stack components

  • Varnish (caching)
  • Redis (used for page caching)
  • Solr (search engine)
  • Elasticsearch (search engine)

Magento is compatible with but not supported for:

  • HHVM 3.9 PHP interpreter

Automated testing

Magento also provides automated testing suites that include unit, integration, functional and performance test scripts, as well as JavaScript tests and tools for static code analysis. Components include PHPUnit for the unit test framework and Selenium for the functional test framework.

This framework is located in the dev/tests directory. The functional testing framework mtf can be found in a separate repository{:target="_blank"}. For more information, see the Functional Testing Framework guide.

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