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title: Main Concepts | OpenMetadata Core Concepts Overview
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# Why Open Metadata is the Right Choice for you?

This is a question we get from people being new to metadata platforms or users that are considering a migration from
another data catalog to our Metadata Management Platform.

We believe that the best answer you can get to this question is in our blog:

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What generation of metadata systems is OpenMetadata? Are you pull-based, push-based, or hybrid? How is it different
from other open-source and commercial solutions?
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# High Level Design

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Deep dive into the internals of OpenMetadata!
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# Main Concepts

Here you can find out some information about the main concepts around Open Metadata, mainly the ideas
behind JSON Schemas and our schema-first APIs.

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Review the standard that powers OpenMetadata with JSON Schema.
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Explore our API structure.
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