sodadata/soda-core

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Soda Core is a data quality and data contract verification engine that lets teams define data quality contracts in YAML and validate schema and data across their data stack. It ships as a Python library and CLI supporting many data sources like PostgreSQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, and Databricks, with 50+ built-in checks.

Use cases

• validate data quality in pipelines before they run
• define data contracts in yaml for tables
• run data quality checks on snowflake and bigquery
• detect schema drift and anomalies in data warehouses
• embed data tests in airflow or dagster pipelines
• profile and monitor datasets for reliability issues

When to choose

• you need declarative, YAML-based data quality checks across multiple warehouses
• you want to enforce data contracts as part of your ELT pipelines
• you need a CLI and Python API for data validation with broad data source support

When to avoid

• you need a full data observability platform with anomaly detection without Soda Cloud
• your checks are only simple unit tests on Python code rather than data
• you require a GUI-first data quality tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

testing monitoring etl cli developer-tools analytics databases python cli cross-platform data-contracts data-quality data-observability yaml-configuration dbt snowflake bigquery data-pipelines data-engineering devops

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