What are the differences between major e-commerce technologies for site-building?

klygen asked:

MySQL/PHP, Joomla, RubyOnRails, ASP.net, etc.
I want a way to decide which technology to learn and use for my site. I would need a username/password system, three different access levels to an archive of database entries, and a shopping cart system.

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