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Soda Overview

What is Soda?

Soda is the comprehensive data quality platform that offers end-to-end data quality management, enabling users to test, debug, and prevent data issues while uniting data producers and consumers in defining high-quality data that benefits the business. Soda empowers both coders and non-coders with the tools needed to monitor data quality health and ensure data reliability from the get-go: Data Observability: Foundational Monitoring Activate Soda’s out-of-the-box, ML-driven dashboards to profile your data and provide automated insights into anomalies that could cause downstream issues. Within five days, you can build a comprehensive view of your data’s behavior over time and automate essential data monitoring tasks – such as tracking, volume, freshness, schema changes, and other vital metrics–using AI and machine learning to detect anomalies. Pipeline Testing: Prevention is Better Than Cure Test data quality early and often in development and production pipelines to catch problems far upstream, before they can impact your business. Users can write checks explicitly and declaratively as code, and manage version control of check files in Git. What makes Soda unique? Data Contracts: API for Data Data Contracts help data teams manage ownership and establish an agreed-upon state of data quality using a common language to detect and prevent issues. No-code UI for Business Collaboration Capture business requirements through an easy-to-use no-code interface, leveraging over 25 out-of-the-box and quick-to-scale built-in checks and metrics. GenAI Assistants GenAI Assistants translate natural language into SQL queries or regular expressions and simplify complex business rules with GenAI-boosted check creation. Users can provide natural language prompts to generate production-ready checks, fix issues, and answer questions about the platform. Native integrations and APIs for your stack: - Receive alerts via email, Slack, and MS Teams for seamless collaboration. - Integrate with data catalogs such as Alation, Atlan, Collibra, data.world, and more. - Create incidents to track issue investigations and use webhooks to route alerts to your on-call systems like Jira, Opsgenie, and ServiceNow.

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Soda makes it easy to test data quality early and often in development (Git) and production pipelines. Soda catches problems far upstream, before they wreak havoc on your business. Use Soda to: add data quality tests to your CI/CD pipeline to avoid merging bad-quality data into production; prevent downstream issues by improving your pipeline with integrated data quality tests; and, unite data producers and data consumers to align and define data quality expectations with a human-readable and -writable checks language. You can easily integrate Soda into your data stack, leveraging the Python and REST APIs Teams.


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2018
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Brussels, BE
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Say goodbye to data issues and hello to trust with Soda, the data quality platform built for the modern data stack. Our mission is simple: to help data teams catch, prevent, and resolve data issues before they wreak havoc downstream.With Soda, you can embed powerful data quality checks right into your data stack and systems. Ensure that the data you deliver is accurate, reliable, and trustworthy. And thanks to SodaGPT, our groundbreaking generative AI for data quality, creating production-ready checks has never been easier. Simply ask Soda in plain English, and it will translate your queries into SodaCL, a user-friendly language for data quality.Join the over 100 data-driven organizations worldwide, including HelloFresh, Group 1001, Lululemon, Panasonic, Zefr, and Zendesk, who rely on Soda to power their data quality. From preventing bad data merges to aligning with data consumers and integrating seamlessly into your data stack, Soda will enable your team to test and deliver data that everyone can trust.


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"A Handy Tool for Project Managers with Limited Usage"
Soda offers a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy for me to quickly access the information I need as a project manager. I appreciate h...
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The Soda team's willingness to provide support to us via Slack has been a boon. Interacting directly with the Soda product team in the tool we alre...
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Soda Demo - Observe data quality & automatically detect anomalies
Soda's out-of-the-box, ML-driven dashboards profile your data and provide automated insight into anomalies that cause downstream disaster. Soda's machine learning algorithm automatically creates checks for your datasets, ensuring continuous monitoring of key metrics. Get essential data quality co...
Soda Demo - Test data in your pipelines
Soda makes it easy for you to test data quality early and often in development and production pipelines. Soda catches data problems far upstream, before they can impact your business.
Soda Demo - Get assistance from Soda AI
Soda AI provides a variety of smart assistants to translate natural language into SQL queries or regular expressions, simplify complex business rules with GenAI-boosted check creation and accelerate time-to-value with reliable data.
Soda Demo - Manage incidents and resolve data issues
Proactively alert the right people, with the right information, at the right time, on the data quality issues that are impacting data products critical to their work. Utilize Soda's issue management to assign and resolve data quality issues to guarantee prompt and efficient identification, docume...
Soda Demo - Use No-code Checks for business collaboration
Soda’s no-code interface for business collaboration makes it easy for data product teams to let business stakeholders, like data analysts, define data quality checks without writing a single line of code.
Soda Demo - Use Discussions to manage data quality expectations
Discussions in Soda is a messaging space that facilitates collaboration between data producers and data consumers. Together, colleagues can establish the expected and agreed-upon state of data quality in a dataset by proposing, then approving data quality checks that execute as part of a schedule...
A 15-minute video guiding you through Soda's features and capabilities. Discover how to observe and monitor data quality, collaborate on resolving detected issues, and prevent data quality issues.
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A 15-minute video guiding you through Soda's features and capabilities. Discover how to observe and monitor data quality, collaborate on resolving detected issues, and prevent data quality issues.
Tom Baeyens, CTO and Co-founder of Soda, introduces Soda Data Contracts, available in Soda Core (OSS). In this video, Tom takes 6 minutes to explain what a data contract is, and three key use cases.
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Tom Baeyens, CTO and Co-founder of Soda, introduces Soda Data Contracts, available in Soda Core (OSS). In this video, Tom takes 6 minutes to explain what a data contract is, and three key use cases.
Transforming Data Analytics with Snowflake, Dagster, Coalesce, Atlan & Soda: In Conversation with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001
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Transforming Data Analytics with Snowflake, Dagster, Coalesce, Atlan & Soda: In Conversation with Gu Xie, Head of Data Engineering at Group 1001
In this session, Anand Sethukumar, Operations Engineer at Abercrombie & Fitch, will share the company’s transition from reactive data management practices towards a proactive approach through the implementation of contractual data assets.
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In this session, Anand Sethukumar, Operations Engineer at Abercrombie & Fitch, will share the company’s transition from reactive data management practices towards a proactive approach through the implementation of contractual data assets.

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What do you like best about Soda?

It seems to have everything we needed when looking for a better more experessive validations tool. When we sat down and brainstormed what we wanted we wrote up some thoughts and desires. When we started doing research and found Soda, it was essentially what we had dreamt up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

So far there isn't too much to dislike about Soda. Some of the documentation is a bit hard to follow at times, but after spending a few days with it the team has finally gotten the hang out it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

We wanted a more expressive way to build validations into our data pipeline and have them be built in a more customizable manner that could be read from an object as opposed to being core to the definition of the schema. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Soda?

The support for databricks as it enables be to do dat quality on any type og dataset Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

The cloud offer is Michael to expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

It enables my team to write complex data quality checks in an easy to read YAML syntax and execute the checks in any workflow in Databricks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Peter, thank you for your review. It's great to hear the success your team is having with Soda for your Databricks workflow. We do have various pricing models for Soda Cloud - if you'd like to learn more, please don't hesitate to get in touch with me: tash@soda.io

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What do you like best about Soda?

Soda helps users to do validations without need to write the queries which is the easiest way to play the SQL queries. The integrated platform of soda helps data producers and consumers. It has numbers to data sources available such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Athena or more. The way it is documented is very easy to understand and helps users to play with the data. Soda is definitely a good Data Quality tool. The best part about the Soda is The Soda Agent which containerised Soda Library that deploys in a Kubernetes cluster in cloud devices provider environment such as Azure of AWS.

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Multiple data source available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

There are some limitations about Soda like users need to add additional configuration to the data sources in order to see the preview of the dataset. Soda doesn't performed operations like median and mode. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Soda has some amazing features like freshness foundational data quality check(data freshness), Anomalies Detection, Detect Missing data, Generate checks with AI, Automation for RCA which benefitted us to during the validation. It prioritise the data quality rules and data quality monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janet Revell of Soda

Thanks for sharing your feedback!

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What do you like best about Soda?

Soda is a very flexible and customizable tool for quality assertions. We use it to validate the integrity of our data lake. Other tools suchs as dbt tests are good for modeld data but are more limited compared to soda that can be very customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

It was a little bit complex in the beggining to integrate with our spark infrastructure but after the first integration was finished the new ones were easier to do. The main issue was due to python libraries conflicts that took some time to solve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Soda solves our data quality issues and helps us identify when there are issues in our data pipeline suchs as new deploys that might have broken the data transformation. We use it to extract metrics from our transactional databases and compare them with our delta lake to be sure that data has been replicated correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishabh J.
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What do you like best about Soda?

Nice interactive platform with ease to access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Could add more functions to the platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Improving data quality Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jordan T.
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What do you like best about Soda?

High level markup of DBT tests that would often take me many lines of code to write Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Lake of an observability feature on Core. Lack of ability to do impact testing/obtain an impact report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Simplified DBT Testing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you, Jordan - it's great to hear that we're lightening the load. Check out Soda Cloud for our out-of-the-box anomaly dashboards for data observability. And keep an eye on our releases for what's coming next. Feature requests can be posted in our Community; please do share: soda-community.slack.com

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What do you like best about Soda?

Soda Cloud is a nice and user-friendly interface to both interact with our data and ensure data quality.

The Agreements is a big hit for us! It will take a lot of Jira-work out of the picture, and let us focus on quick-to-implement data quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

The SodaCL will be a bit of a learning curve for some of our business end-users to start implementing their own data quality. But from the experience we have now, the learning curve is quite managable.

We would also like to see the Agreements be more collaborative. Make it easy for Stakeholders to see what changes have been made when they have to re-approve an Agreement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

We want to improve end-user engagement with data quality implementation. We want to move away from data quality being a data engineer-specific area to being much more of a busuess-user area, as they know the data they are working with. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you, Rune - we're so pleased on the benefits you and the team are getting from Soda!

Mauricio d.
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What do you like best about Soda?

The ease of implementing Soda.io was essential for us to promote a data quality culture within our company. We have a wide range of teams and datasets, and before Soda.io, there was no standardized, consistent, and scalable way to implement data quality scans.

Soda allowed us to empower the business units to define and implement their own quality metrics, which boosted our data quality strategy in the company. Furthermore, the solution has been evolving rapidly over the past few years, delivering very useful new features.

The observability power of Soda.io has given us a better understanding of our data quality, and now we can react quickly in case of any incidents.

Another highly positive feature of Soda.io is its API integration capability and its ability to seamlessly integrate with a variety of technologies within the modern data stack, which is essential for our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Despite the ease of implementation of Soda.io by our data engineering teams, less technical teams may still encounter some challenges in creating data quality scans. However, these difficulties have been decreasing with each new feature.

The way datasets and tables are organized in the web interface (Soda Cloud) could be improved. For instance, the creation of groups or namespaces to group datasets and tables within the same context. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Soda is helping us scale our data quality strategy, empowering users to create and mantain their own data quality scans. It helps us to quickly identify and react whenever a key data pipeline breaks (which may affect, data accuray, freshness, completness, etc). As result we can keep a good control of data downtime metrics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you for your thoughtful and fantastic review, Mauricio!

Walace M.
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What do you like best about Soda?

Soda.io has been a revelation for our data quality and governance needs. Our organization deals with vast amounts of data, and ensuring its accuracy and consistency is paramount. Soda.io has simplified this process immensely.

One of the standout features of Soda.io is its user-friendly interface. Even team members without extensive technical backgrounds can navigate the platform effortlessly. The ability to set up custom data quality rules and checks has made a significant impact on our data workflows. We can identify and rectify data anomalies and errors quickly, which has improved our decision-making processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

While Soda.io offers a user-friendly interface for basic operations, some of its more advanced features may have a steeper learning curve. Users with limited technical expertise might find it challenging to take full advantage of the platform's capabilities.

Soda.io's integration capabilities with other software tools and platforms could be further improved. Users who rely on a variety of software applications may encounter challenges in seamlessly connecting and automating data quality processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Soda.io can help us to ensure the accuracy, completeness, and consistency of our data. It enables our users to define data quality rules and checks to identify and rectify data anomalies and errors.

Soda.io provides real-time monitoring of data quality and issues. It can send alerts and notifications when predefined data quality thresholds are not met, allowing us to respond promptly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you for your review, Walace - we couldn't be happier to read the impact Soda is having; that's great news. Our no-code checks release is built for non-technical users: be sure to check it out!

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Carlos B.
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What do you like best about Soda?

Ease of creation of validations without the need to write queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Many bugs and instabilities in several parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Soda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Data quality monitoring Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.