# API Architectures

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**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 4:38am UTC](https://community.bizdata360.com/t/api-architectures/40 "2022-08-30T04:38:53Z")\
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There are 3 different types of API architectures.

- REST API
- SOAP API
- RCP API

**REST API:** An method to communications known as REST ([Representational State Transfer] architecture) encourages a comparatively straightforward interface between components (clients and servers). It places a focus on a small number of well defined operations, each with a predetermined set of parameter types.

**SOAP API:** A SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) API is a technique for XML-based communication between various systems. These files are typically used in web services to connect two systems and transfer data back and forth via a network connection.

**RCP API:** A service operating on one computer can request data from another using a technique called a Remote Procedure Call, (or RPC). Any remote process may be called using this kind of API, and you can obtain results from it.