{"id":172,"date":"2020-02-17T16:33:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T15:33:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/metashare-help-faq-what-is-metashares-architecture\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:48:13","slug":"metashares-architecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/metashares-architecture\/","title":{"rendered":"MetaShare&#8217;s architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">MetaShare Online and self-hosted<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1459\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online.png 1459w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_online-768x532.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1459px) 100vw, 1459px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list centered-list\">\n<li>The end users interact with MetaShare\u2019s web application, which is geographically located in The Netherlands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MetaShare\u2019s web application only stores each customers\u2019 unique MetaShare configurations (e.g. which filters and columns to display in the user interface). In the case you have a self-hosted MetaShare Online, only your own MetaShare configurations will be stored in the web application and you can choose in which geographically location you want to have your Azure infrastructure.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documents and their metadata are only stored in the customers\u2019 own Microsoft 365&nbsp;tenant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documents are opened directly from SharePoint, never passing through the MetaShare application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-primary-color has-css-opacity has-primary-background-color has-background aligncenter is-style-default\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">MetaShare Server<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1340\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-99221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server.png 1340w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server-1024x764.png 1024w, https:\/\/metashare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/metashare_data_flow_server-768x573.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1340px) 100vw, 1340px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list centered-list\">\n<li>The end users interact with MetaShare\u2019s web application.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>MetaShare\u2019s web application only stores the customer\u2019s unique MetaShare configurations (e.g. which filters and columns to display in the user interface).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documents and their metadata are only stored in the customer\u2019s own SharePoint farm.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documents are opened directly from SharePoint, never passing through the MetaShare application.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MetaShare Online and self-hosted MetaShare Server<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"element-controls":[99],"class_list":{"0":"post-172","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"element-controls-center-title","6":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99223,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/99223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"element-controls","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metashare.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/element-controls?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}