In this section you can find a brief presentation of the internal components of the zkBox server. The zkBox server consists of several modules; the most important are:

• the web API component - responsible for receiving the requests and forward them to the core API module
• the core API module - responsible for the entire business logic of the zkBox server; it's getting commands from the web and it's communicating with the data model layer
• the data model layer - it's supporting the core API module by providing persistence capabilities; it's using the following main modules:
  • the caching component - a distributed cache across the nodes of the system to provide caching capabilities; it's used to reduce the trips to the storage layer
  • the data access layer - the persistence layer where the data is pushed to be actually stored; this layer can be either an AWS connector (to store the data into the Amazon cloud by using Amazon SimpleDB and Amazon S3) or an SQL connector (to store the data into a Microsoft SQL Server database)

The system is also using several 3^rd party components to interact with the outside world.

Below you can see an image presenting the internal components of the zkBox server and their relations:

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