Evolution of Architecture Styles and Domain Classification

Sharing one, we talk every day about what various architectures actually mean—what is an architecture style, what is an architecture pattern, what is an architecture domain. Below is my summary of the evolution of architecture styles.

Architecture Style Evolution

Architecture styles mainly view architecture from different perspectives.

Architecture Domains

Architecture domains primarily classify architectures based on the problem domains they address.

Domain Architecture

Sub-Domain Architecture

Web Application Architecture

Traditional Web Application

Modern Web Application

Generated Web Application

PWA

Rich Client Application Architecture

Native

RCP

Web Desktop

Mobile Application Architecture

Native Mobile

H5 Mobile

Hybrid Mobile

Integration Architecture

Event driven

API Gateway

MFT

Batching ETL

Near real-time ETL (streaming)

ESB

B2B EDI

CDC (Capturing Data Change)

Pub/Sub

Object Storage

Data Architecture

Transaction data stores (TDS/OLTP)

Master data store

Operational data store

Data mart

Data warehouse

Data modeling

Dimensional data modeling

Data Vault Modeling

E‑R data modeling

Document data modeling

Key‑value data modeling

Graph data modeling

Common data modeling

Analytics & BI Architecture

Transactional reporting

Operational reporting

Analytical dashboard

Operational dashboard

Real‑time dashboards

Operational analytics

Predictive analytics

Prescriptive analytics

Streaming analytics

Statistical analysis

In‑memory analytics

Data science and advanced analytics

NLP

Data mining

Big data analytics

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