Soda Core is a data quality and data contract verification engine for modern data stacks.
It lets teams define data quality contracts in YAML and validate both schema and data across supported data platforms. The software provides a command-line interface and Python API, so checks can be run locally during development, embedded in data pipelines, or executed remotely when connected to Soda Cloud.
This is source-available software.
Key Features
- Defines data contracts using human-readable YAML syntax.
- Validates schemas and data against contract rules.
- Provides a command-line interface for creating, testing, publishing, and verifying contracts.
- Offers a Python API for embedding contract verification in workflows and pipelines.
- Supports data sources including PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, DuckDB, and more.
- Includes more than 50 built-in data quality checks for common and advanced validations.
- Can integrate with Soda Cloud for centralized management and monitoring.
Website: github.com/sodadata/soda-core
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Developer: Soda Data
License: Elastic License 2.0
Soda Core is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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