Magento is the e-commerce system that is used and adopted widely. This tag is useful for the magento version 1.12.
Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien (now Magento Inc) with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by Magento Inc.. Magento was built using the Zend Framework. It uses the entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data.
The Magento ecommerce system has been widely adopted by online retailers with 150,000 sites known to use it ranging from smaller ecommerce websites to large multinational businesses such as Harvey Nichols and Samsung.
Magento is well known in its developer community for its use of object-oriented programming (OOP) and especially for its use of the EAV model.citation needed This allows Magento to be much more versatile than most e-commerce platforms at storing a large range of data.