Archival Store and Service
The Archival Store and Service provide a scalable, consistent foundation for accessing historical onchain data on Sui beyond what full nodes or indexer databases typically retain. Full nodes enforce limited data retention for scalability and performance, so applications that need to query old transactions, checkpoints, or object states rely on the archival infrastructure.
This infrastructure serves as the historical backbone for GraphQL RPC, gRPC-based applications, and data platforms, providing efficient point lookups for historical data even after full nodes have pruned it.