Ab Initio Technology LLC

Jonah Egenolf

Marshall Alan Isman

Ian Schechter

Robert Parks

Frederic Wild

Adam Harris Weiss

Dusan Radivojevic

Paul Veiser

Mazin Woodrow Khader

Richard Mellon

John MacLean

A method for using a metadata model to perform operations on data items, with the metadata model including parent nodes and child nodes connected by edges, with the parent nodes specifying logical metadata and the child nodes specifying physical metadata representing the data items, and with the edges specifying relationships between the nodes. The method includes: identifying a given data item and physical metadata of that given data item, accessing the metadata model, identifying, in the metadata model, a child node representing the physical metadata of the given data item, traversing one or more edges in the metadata model to identify parent nodes of the child node, determining, from logical metadata associated with the identified parent nodes, one or more operations to be performed on the given data item, applying the one or more operations to the given data item to transform the data item, and storing the transformed data item.

Operationalizing metadata

A method includes accessing a schema that specifies relationships among datasets, computations on the datasets, or transformations of the datasets, selecting a dataset from among the datasets, and identifying, from the schema, other datasets that are related to the selected dataset. Attributes of the datasets are identified, and logical data representing the identified attributes and relationships among the attributes is generated. The logical data is provided to a development environment, which provides access to portions of the logical data representing the identified attributes. A specification that specifies at least one of the identified attributes in performing an operation is received from the development environment. Based on the specification and the relationships among the identified attributes represented by the logical data, a computer program is generated to perform the operation by accessing, from storage, at least one dataset having the at least one of the attributes specified in the specification.

Generation of optimized logic from a schema

A method implemented by a data processing system for enabling a system to pipeline or otherwise process data in conformance with specified criteria by providing a graphical user interface for selecting data to be processed, determining metadata of selected data, and, based on the metadata, automatically processing the selected data in conformance with the specified criteria.

Meta-data driven ingestion and data processing

A method performed by a computer system including: accessing a specification that specifies a plurality of modules to be implemented by the computer program for processing the one or more values of the one or more fields in the structured data item; transforming the specification into the computer program that implements the plurality of modules, wherein the transforming includes: for each of one or more first modules of the plurality of modules: identifying one or more second modules of the plurality of modules that each receive input that is at least partly based on an output of the first module; and formatting an output data format of the first module such that the first module outputs only one or more values of one or more fields of the structured data item.

Transforming a specification into a persistent computer program

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