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description: OpenMetadata Architecture
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# Architecture

OpenMetadata Unlock the value of data assets with an end-to-end metadata platform that includes data discovery, governance, data quality, observability, and people collaboration.

OpenMetadata depends on following components to build a metadata platform

* JsonSchemas for defining Metadata Schemas
* Dropwizard/Jetty for REST APIs
* MySQL 8.x to store Metadata
* ElasticSearch 7.x to index Metadata and power search

![](<../../.gitbook/assets/quickstart-guide.drawio (2).png>)

To understand the OpenMetadata Architecture and how everything fits together please go through [Design page](solution-design.md)

For Schema design and how our API works here is an example of [ML Model entity page](entities/ml-model-entity.md)