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# Architecture

This page illustrates a simplified high-level architecture diagram of Sorada.

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## Services

Sorada is composed of multiple services that enable Sonic to optimize read requests

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### Lite RPC

The Lite RPC service is an optimized Solana RPC service stripped away from a Solana full node only maintaining data retrieval endpoints such as `getBlock` and `getTransaction`.

### Ingestor

The Ingestor service pulls real-time data from the Sonic Hypergrid and persists data on the big table storage.

### Replicator

The Replicator service replicates the indexed data from the big table storage to a distributed filesystem for more resilient data preservation.

## Data Repositories

Sorada utilizes three (3) different data repository types for a robust data preservation infrastructure.

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### Cache

Sorada utilizes a cache for an efficient retrieval of repetitive requests.

### Big Table

Sorada utilizes a big table database as its primary data store.

### Distributed Filesystem

Sorada utilizes a self-replicating distributed filesystem to ensure data is safely persisted across multiple data nodes.