The Foundry Ontology

Activate your data and analytics in a dynamic system for closed-loop operations.

The Foundry Ontology is the heart of Palantir Foundry. It integrates the semantic, kinetic, and dynamic elements of your business — empowering your teams to harmonize and automate decision-making in complex settings.

One Ontology. Three Layers of Capability.

High-fidelity objects. Real-time actions. Multi-step simulations. Foundry Ontology is a groundbreaking new way to interact with your business.

Step Into Real-Time Collaboration

Execute faster with universal logic representing the objects, actions, and processes of your business.

Activate the Power of Your Data and Analytics.

Weave your data and analytics directly into the daily decision-making happening across your core business and operational teams. Capture decisions for continuous learning.

Collaboration, Supercharged.

Achieve real-time collaboration between your data, analytics, and operational teams. Integrate decision-making in a common logic layer, driving meaningful action as conditions evolve.

The Best Way to Build.

Compose AI-powered workflows on a scalable architecture that re-uses your ontology’s multi-modal objects, actions, and processes

No Duplication.

Incorporate data and models from your enterprise architecture — without duplicating the underlying assets or fracturing existing sources of truth.

Native Federation

Incorporate existing datasets in external systems into objects — without duplicating the underlying data.

Integrate directly with data platforms, streamlining the hydration of existing data assets into the Ontology.

Federation ensures that the Ontology can harness the full power of your enterprise architecture, without fracturing existing sources of truth.

Data Governance. Automated.

DYNAMIC DATA LINEAGE

Move beyond theoretical and best-guess data lineage crawlers. Foundry provides active metadata and full user attribution to automatically apply and maintain lineage across all data elements. Every version of every dataset in Foundry indicates which code, parent datasets, and runtime created it.

MULTI-MODAL SECURITY

Eliminate “bolt-on” and legacy cloud security approaches. Foundry implements role-, marking-, and purpose-based access controls as active and immutable metadata. Foundry’s security and lineage engines work in concert, providing detailed accounts of who had access to what, and why, across data versions.

EMBEDDED DATA HEALTH Bring data quality to life through an integrated suite of capabilities for defining, monitoring, and responding to data issues – across all assets. Proactive health checks can be applied using point-and-click or code-based configurations — and work at the level of individual jobs or entire pipeline orchestrations with complex and granular success criteria. User feedback on data quality keeps automated and proactive health checks fresh.

SQL. And Much More.

SECURE, SCALABLE SQL

Enable a broad range of advanced SQL data integration and consumption patterns with JDBC and ODBC connectivity. A Spark-based engine powers complex queries, and a Direct Read engine can bypass Spark and stream data directly to the consumer. Foundry works with the most popular Reporting and BI providers (e.g., Microsoft, Tableau, Qlik) and can automatically sync to specialized stores like ElasticSearch — taking you beyond traditional SQL and powering fast, interactive analytics for your users.

CUTTING-EDGE TIME SERIES

Quiver puts time series analytics in the hands of users like never before. On the backend, a next-generation time series database, Epoch, eliminates the traditional compromises seen with warehousing and data lake architectures. Epoch horizontally scales as usage expands, and powers complex analytics and ML workflows at scale.

POWERING DIGITAL TWINS

Fuel the next-generation of analytics and operational software with object and action modeling. REST APIs unlock the ability access, monitor, and evolve semantic object backends — powering enterprise-scale digital twins.

Scale. Fast and Far.

AUTOSCALING

A Kubernetes-based service mesh delivers autoscaling even in the most complex operational settings. Battle-tested in environments like vaccine distribution, wildfire response, and aircraft assembly, the service mesh provides ephemeral nodes, rich cost accountability, and secure code execution.

CONTINUOUS DELIVERY, NO DOWNTIME

Every component within Foundry is powered by Palantir Apollo, the next-generation platform for autonomous scaling, management, and monitoring of critical infrastructure.

MISSION CONTROL FOR YOUR DATA

Stay in command with Foundry’s full-spectrum governance that weaves together control planes for data and metadata governance, usage governance, rich reporting, and federated workflows.