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Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by est on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:03PM (#47107701)
It's just view, materialized view, udf, stored procedure in fancy corp speak.
Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by rapind on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:42PM (#47108238)
> fancy Karp speak.

The paypal mafia are all about stories. They can attract talent and investor money with those stories, but they are just tall tales full of hype, and people are catching on (ok that last bit might be a hopium).

Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by kumarvvr on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:14PM (#47107759)
Do you have any resources or books to learn all the details of all these?

Also, what is UDF?

Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by AxiomaticSpace on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:22PM (#47107808)
Pretty much any SQL book will cover it those, and there's a bunch of online SQL tutorials. UDF means user defined function, so if there's some function you want to perform in SQL but that function doesn't come out of the box, you can just write your own. And those can be defined in non-SQL syntax, such as UDF's written in python or C++, which can be pretty handy.
Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by dmoy on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:30PM (#47107847)
> python or C++

Also sometimes Lua, which is kinda a nice middleground between c++ efficiency and python ease of writing

Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by tfryman on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:16PM (#47107770)
User defined functions
Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by whattheheckheck on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:06PM (#47108054)
Data warehouse toolkit for Kimball

Google will inmon for the info factory

Google data vault

Joe reis is the guy for tying it up with a modern bow recently.

Designing data intensive applications book

Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by trollbridge on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:05PM (#47107709)
Believe it or not, this stuff is still incredibly valuable.
Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by est on Saturday February 21, 2026 @10:47PM (#47107930)
I have to admit, those fancy concepts pay the bills.
Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by trollbridge on Saturday February 21, 2026 @11:36PM (#47108207)
I'm having a blast with using PostgreSQL to hold unstructured data in JSON-B and then creating views off of that that "feel" like more conventional SQL.

If performance becomes an issue, just turn it into an MV... and then consider some indexing on the JSON itself.

Re:Palantir's secret weapon isn't AI – it's Ontology. An ope... by jhanschoo on Sunday February 22, 2026 @01:59AM (#47108897)
> fancy corp speak

Perhaps gov contractor speak would be more accurate. I'd think a corp with an org sufficiently aligned to their business value and profit motive wouldn't stand for the fancy speak either