Core Components

this article provides a high level overview of the main components that make up the ditto platform, along with the standard terminology used throughout the documentation the following table provides an overview of standard ditto terms and definitions to be familiar with item term definition 1 small peer your app integrated with the ditto sdk the ditto sdk consists of both the local ditto store and the functionality that enables platform capabilities ( docid 16xyoe8rkqmc3u3uc7m ) 2 big peer a cloud deployment that appears as any other peer in the decentralized network; however, with elevated access permissions and advanced capabilities of replication, authentication, and authorization ( docid 16xyoe8rkqmc3u3uc7m ) 3 auth service the onlinewithauthentication api that you use to request your access credentials for authentication ( docid\ jqjyl9gbvsgi9vlw3ywvc ) 4 http api the api you can use to programmatically interact with the big peer ( docid\ tqwdcet3fi3m5vgayqlaf ) 5 change data capture (cdc) the premium upgrade to implement realtime event streaming from ditto to your own third party database and apache kafka topics ( docid\ qbwrp9sjxbny ds p es6 )