Intro to Soda SQL: Open Data Testing and Monitoring

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.

In-house Tool for Performance Testing

In the software development cycle, testing is one of the important criteria. There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage. For small start-up companies, these license costs can be unbearable. We analyze a tool to make the process easier and more cost effective. 

About the Tool

Every team and company has different requirements and applications built out. The objective is to create a tool in the most customized way which is easily configurable and expandable to test current and future applications.