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title: "Grafana Mimir advanced architecture | Grafana Enterprise Metrics documentation"
description: "Learn about the Grafana Mimir architecture components and services."
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# Grafana Mimir advanced architecture

The following topics include in-depth overviews of the Grafana Mimir architecture.

- [Deployment modes](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/deployment-modes/)
- [Components](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/components/)
- [Binary index-header](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/binary-index-header/)
- [Bucket index](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/bucket-index/)
- [Hash rings](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/hash-ring/)
- [Key-value store](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/key-value-store/)
- [Memberlist and gossip protocol](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/memberlist-and-the-gossip-protocol/)
- [Query sharding](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/query-sharding/)
- [Mimir query engine](/docs/enterprise-metrics/v2.17.x/reference/mimir-arch/mimir-query-engine/)