Architecture Discussions

An architect asks whether Genie Ontology is a real ontology or marketing, and how it compares to the Palantir Foundry ontology. The community answers well, but the documentation is ahead of the discussion on three points.

Do you work in notebooks or in VS Code? The question sounds practical, but the real subject is where your source of truth lives. The community describes a good workflow, and Databricks now documents one that differs on four points.

An administrator wants to know which workspaces run on a Microsoft Fabric capacity. The community points at the Core API, but that one has no capacity filter and only shows what the caller is allowed to see. Why that distinction defines the entire inventory.

An engineer installs the Databricks CLI with pip, sees 'Requirement already satisfied' and is still told that databricks-connect is not recognised. The accepted answer is correct, and it has since been overtaken on exactly the two points it addresses.