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Main Concepts | OpenMetadata Core Concepts Overview /main-concepts

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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High Level Design

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{%inlineCallout icon="celebration" bold="High Level Design" href="/main-concepts/high-level-design" %} Deep dive into the internals of OpenMetadata! {%/inlineCallout%}

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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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{%inlineCallout icon="celebration" bold="OpenMetadata Schemas" href="/main-concepts/metadata-standard/schemas" %} Review the standard that powers OpenMetadata with JSON Schema. {%/inlineCallout%}

{%inlineCallout icon="storage" bold="OpenMetadata APIs" href="/main-concepts/metadata-standard/apis" %} Explore our API structure. {%/inlineCallout%}

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