Learn about the open-source Soda SQL, a new tool that can help you with data testing, monitoring, and profiling.
Join the DZone community and get the full member experience. On behalf of the Soda team, I am pleased to announce the availability of Soda SQL, Soda’s first open source data testing, monitoring and profiling tool for data-intensive environments. You can download Soda SQL today for free on GitHub. With more and more products being built using data as the core input, it’s never been more important to test and monitor the quality of data being used. For data engineers this usually requires extra capacity and the development of a homegrown data testing framework. As we know, these solutions become unwieldy as the volumes of data and size of teams grow. Which is why we’re excited to release Soda SQL; the first release for Soda as we develop open tools to support data engineers working in data-intensive environments. Highlights of the capabilities included in Soda SQL include: In software, as in so many other areas, what you don’t know can hurt you. At Soda, we call these the silent data issues. Left unchecked, they cause ripple effects across an entire application ecosystem.
