> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.getcollate.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Collate System Architecture | Developer Guide > Explore Collate's system architecture and the core components that power metadata discovery, governance, quality, and collaboration. # Architecture OpenMetadata helps unlock the value of data assets with an end-to-end metadata platform that includes data discovery, governance, data quality, observability, and 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 OpenMetadata architecture To understand the OpenMetadata Architecture and how everything fits together please go through [Design page](/main-concepts/high-level-design). For Schema design and how our API works here is an example of ML [Model entity page](/sdk/python/entities/ml-model)