Archival Store and Service
Long-term access to historical onchain data is essential for developers, although full nodes enforce limited retention for scalability and performance. The Archival Store and Service provide a scalable, consistent foundation for accessing historical data on Sui beyond what full nodes or indexer databases typically retain. This infrastructure serves as the historical backbone for GraphQL RPC, gRPC-based apps, and data platforms, providing efficient point lookups for old transactions, checkpoints, and object states, even after full nodes have pruned them.