Architecture

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Vanuan edited this page Jan 26, 2013 · 2 revisions

CartoDB is based on various technologies. The full list is here: http://cartodb.com/attributions

Backend:

The backend for user's geodata is PostGIS.
Tiles are drawn using Mapnik.
Styling for Mapnik is done using CartoCSS.

Frontend:

Map UI is built with Leaflet.
Wax provides MBTiles implementation to provide fast tile rendering and transfer.

There are non-maps-related frameworks and libraries used:

There's a text editor used: CodeMirror
There are html templates used powered by Mustache
The web-site is powered by Ruby on Rails.
The Javascript framework used is Backbonejs
JQuery + plugins
Nodejs
Varnish
Other