Sergio S.
SS
Sergio S.
Data Engineer
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Data Quality for ELT"
4/5
What do you like best about Soda?

Soda-Core/Soda-Library is an intuitive tool that is easy to set up and use for data tests. It also comes with user-friendly documentation and a supportive community on Slack. On the other hand, Soda Cloud is designed for business partners to conduct tracking tests, set up custom notifications, and more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Soda-Core started as an open-source library, but currently, Soda is releasing new features within Soda-Library, which is now a private library. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you for taking the time to provide your review, Sergio!

Isak S.
IS
Isak S.
Software Engineer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Nice and compact quality tooling for certain use cases"
4/5
What do you like best about Soda?

Soda covers a space between Great expectations and DBT test. Great expectations is a bit too verbose, soda and dbt is more compact. DBT test dont work well inside pipelines, if you want to test an intermediate dataframe without materializing it to a table, Great expectations and soda can test dataframes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Tests have to be one of the out of the box tests or a sql query, you cant easily do generic python tests, maybe you can make it work with UDFs, also no connector to OpenMetadata, which we are using in our org. No OSS ui. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank you for taking the time to provide your review, Isak!

Verified User in Entertainment
UE
Verified User in Entertainment
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data Validation for Analytics"
5/5
What do you like best about Soda?

We love all the integrations SODA provides. We currently use the Slack, Snowflake, and Jira integrations. SODA also has a large suite of built-in metrics to track data quality including anomaly checks and distribution checks. We also love the SODA Cloud API to pull all of our check results over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Overcoming the code vs. no-code debate. SODA has a no-code option, but our team is a proponent of writing the code to give us more customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods
UC
Verified User in Consumer Goods
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Very reliable product"
4/5
What do you like best about Soda?

A very reliable product that meets organizational needs and very easy to implement.

We leverage it for Data Quality and Data Contracts, and it has been very effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

For my use-cases, it serves my needs, hence no dislike. I will only suggest to release more products like Data Catalog and version control integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janet Revell of Soda

Great to hear-- I'm glad Soda is helping in your data quality and contract effort.s

Verified User in Consulting
CC
Verified User in Consulting
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Soda as a External Data Quality Framework"
4/5
What do you like best about Soda?

1. The open source framework to use for free for python users.

2. Great documentation on Soda agent deployment in cloud.

3. Easily create datasource and schedule checks.

4. Integration with orchestration frameworks like 'Airflow' and data governace tools like 'Alation' is quite easy.

5. Defining and checking DQ check fails is not confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

1. While defining checks if I miss to do syntax checks my scheduled check will fail and not show me the actual error in the log.

2. Soda should provide service option of manged instance of Soda agent which they are currently not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Thank You! Do stay up to date with our releases; there's more on its way.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Soda review"
4/5
What do you like best about Soda?

I did poc on data quality using Soda and found that easy to maintain all my test process into a single tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

sometimes it is failing due to library dependency whenever new version updated into soda Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Janet Revell of Soda

Thanks for your feedback!

Verified User in Renewables & Environment
UR
Verified User in Renewables & Environment
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Love soda platform for it's flexibility and simplicity without compromising extensive features"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Soda?

I configured SODA with databricks warehouse and cluster and implemented for almost all use cases using inhouse checks, CTEs and User defined queries.

Features I love the most are

1. Easy filter options to perform checks against recent or a portion of big data

2. Reconciliation checks against migration data

3. Data discovery to find the schema and perform schema evolution checks when schema merge is disabled for a delta table

4. Option to disable sample data collection is useful to implement checks against pii data confidently

5. Easy to configure integrations and to manage incidents

6. Notifications flexibilty

Excited to try the upcoming features and finally, they do an excellent job when it comes to support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

1. Unable to create agreement without agent in SODA UI

2. There is room for improvement on the SODA UI and with the documentation

3. Column profiling is enabled only for specific data types Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

We're glowing from this glowing review - thank you! Stay up to date with our releases; there's more on its way.

Hugo V.
HV
Hugo V.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Powerful and easy-to-setup tool for Data Validation"
5/5
What do you like best about Soda?

I loved Soda's simplicity of use and set-up, although not as straightforward as dbt-tests it's much more powerful and works with lots of data sources, which makes it really flexible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

The open-source version feels a bit lacking at times compared to the paid one, although you can implement most of the connectors by yourself it will be much appreciated if a Slack integration and some basic reporting features were included in the open-source version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Happy to hear how Soda is supporting you, Hugo. Thank you for your feedback on Soda Core. Currently our integrations and APIs are only available in Soda Library and Soda Cloud.

Kan O.
KO
Kan O.
Data Product Developer and Technical Coach
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Data quality is accessible for everyone"
5/5
What do you like best about Soda?

Soda core is very friendly for everyone to contribute to data quality management in an organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

I think there is still some confusion between Soda Core and SodaCL for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Natasha Lauer of Soda

Involving the business is imperative in getting data quality right and we are delighted you've discovered this with Soda, Kan! And we're making it as easy as possible with our no-code check creation. Re: Soda Core, that's our open source engine. SodaCL is the domain-specific language used to create Soda checks.

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Prajwal S.
PS
Prajwal S.
Application Developer
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"soda.io a data monitoring tool as SaaS"
5/5
What do you like best about Soda?

Soda.io Provides API Integrations, which can connect databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud storage. Soda.io can integrate with popular data platforms and data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, and Apache NiFi. Cloud supporters Like Azure, AWS, Google and Oracle. It can be integrated with Power BI and Tableau for Visualization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Soda?

Data monitoring and validation solutions may have limitations regarding the types of data sources they can connect to and process. Limitations in terms of the ability to integrate with other data tools. Like any software solution, soda.io may have regular updates and maintenance requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.