Solution stack

In computing, a solution stack or software stack is a set of software subsystems or components needed to create a complete platform such that no additional software is needed to support applications.^[1] Applications are said to "run on" or "run on top of" the resulting platform.

For example, to develop a web application, the architect defines the stack as the target operating system, web server, database, and programming language. Another version of a software stack is operating system, middleware, database, and applications.^[2] Regularly, the components of a software stack are developed by different developers independently from one another.

Some components/subsystems of an overall system are chosen together often enough that the particular set is referred to by a name representing the whole, rather than by naming the parts. Typically, the name is an acronym representing the individual components.^[3]

The term "solution stack" has, historically, occasionally included hardware components as part of a final product, mixing both the hardware and software in layers of support.^[4]^[5]

A full-stack developer is expected to be able to work in all the layers of the application (front-end and back-end). A full-stack developer can be defined as a developer or an engineer who works with both the front and back end development of a website, web application or desktop application.^[6] This means they can lead platform builds that involve databases, user-facing websites, and working with clients during the planning phase of projects.

OS-level stacks

BCHS^[7]: OpenBSD (operating system); C (programming language); httpd (web server); SQLite (database)

Ganeti^[8]: Xen or KVM (hypervisor); Linux with LVM (mass-storage device management); Distributed Replicated Block Device (storage replication); Ganeti (virtual machine cluster management tool); Ganeti Web Manager (web interface)

GLASS^[9]: GemStone (database and application server); Linux (operating system); Apache (web server); Smalltalk (programming language); Seaside (web framework)

LAMP^[10]: Linux (operating system); Apache (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database management systems); Perl, PHP, or Python (scripting languages)

LEAP^[11]: Linux (operating system); Eucalyptus (free and open-source alternative to the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud); AppScale (cloud computing-framework and free and open-source alternative to Google App Engine); Python (programming language)

LEMP/LNMP^[12]: Linux (operating system); Nginx (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database management systems); Perl, PHP, or Python (scripting languages)

LLMP^[13]: Linux (operating system); Lighttpd (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database management systems); Perl, PHP, or Python (scripting languages)

LYME and LYCE^[14]: Linux (operating system); Yaws (web server, written in Erlang); Mnesia or CouchDB (database, written in Erlang); Erlang (functional programming language)

MAMP^[15]: Mac OS X (operating system); Apache (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database); PHP, Perl, or Python (programming languages)

LAPP^[16]: Linux (operating system); Apache (web server); PostgreSQL (database management systems); Perl, PHP, or Python (scripting languages)

MLVN^[17]: MongoDB (database); Linux (operating system); Varnish (software) (frontend cache); Node.js (JavaScript runtime)

WAMP^[18]: Windows (operating system); Apache (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database); PHP, Perl, or Python (programming language)

WIMP^[19]: Windows (operating system); Internet Information Services (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database); PHP, Perl, or Python (programming language)

WINS^[20]: Windows Server (operating system); Internet Information Services (web server); .NET (software framework); SQL Server (database)

WISA^[21]: Windows Server (operating system); Internet Information Services (web server); SQL Server (database); ASP.NET (web framework)

WISAV/WIPAV: Windows Server (operating system); Internet Information Services (web server); Microsoft SQL Server/PostgreSQL (database); ASP.NET (backend web framework); Vue.js (frontend web framework)

OS-agnostic web stacks

ELK^[22]: Elasticsearch (search engine); Logstash (event and log management tool); Kibana (data visualization)

GRANDstack^[23]: GraphQL (data query and manipulation language); React (web application presentation); Apollo (Data Graph Platform); Neo4j (database management systems)

JAMstack^[24]: JavaScript (programming language); APIs (Application programming interfaces); Markup (content)

MARQS^[10]: Apache Mesos (node startup/shutdown); Akka (toolkit) (actor implementation); Riak (data store); Apache Kafka (messaging); Apache Spark (big data and MapReduce)

MEAN^[10]: MongoDB (database); Express.js (application controller layer); AngularJS/Angular (web application presentation); Node.js (JavaScript runtime)

MERN^[25]: MongoDB (database); Express.js (application controller layer); React.js (web application presentation); Node.js (JavaScript runtime)

MEVN^[26]: MongoDB (database); Express.js (application controller layer); Vue.js (web application presentation); Node.js (JavaScript runtime)

NMP^[27]: Nginx (web server); MySQL or MariaDB (database); PHP (programming language)

OpenACS^[28]: NaviServer (web server); OpenACS (web application framework); PostgreSQL or Oracle Database (database); Tcl (scripting language)

PERN^[29]: PostgreSQL (database); Express.js (application controller layer); React (JavaScript library) (web application presentation); Node.js (JavaScript runtime)

PLONK: Prometheus (metrics and time-series); Linkerd (service mesh); OpenFaaS (management and auto-scaling of compute); NATS (asynchronous message bus/queue); Kubernetes (declarative, extensible, scale-out, self-healing clustering)

SMACK^[10]: Apache Spark (big data and MapReduce); Apache Mesos (node startup/shutdown); Akka (toolkit) (actor implementation); Apache Cassandra (database); Apache Kafka (messaging)

T-REx^[30]: TerminusDB (scalable graph database); React (JavaScript web framework); Express.js (framework for Node.js)

XAMPP^[31]: cross-platform (operating system); Apache (web server); MariaDB or MySQL (database); PHP (programming language); Perl (programming language)

XRX^[32]: XML database (database such as BaseX, eXist, MarkLogic Server); XQuery (Query language); REST (client interface); XForms (client)

Examples

OS-level stacks

OS-agnostic web stacks

See also

References

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