Overview

Soda's Collaborative Data Contracts enable data teams to define, share, and enforce expectations around data quality—turning detected anomalies into formal agreements between data producers and consumers. With a unified interface supporting both no‑code/low‑code options and YAML‑based workflows, teams stay aligned while shifting quality checks upstream to prevent issues before they reach production.

Features and Capabilities

• Shift data quality left: define expectations early and enforce them upstream to prevent issues before production deployment.
• Turn anomalies into contracts: seamlessly promote detected issues into enforceable checks and embed them upstream.
• One shared interface: a unified UI for both business users and engineers—minimizing silos, lost context, and over‑reliance on informal channels.
• Flexible authoring: authors can either write contracts in YAML (code) or use the visual low‑code/no‑code editor.
• CI/CD & pipeline integrations: integrate contracts with Soda Core, library, or CLI to automatically validate data quality as part of pipeline or deployment workflows.
• Python library support: data contracts are implemented as a Python library (soda-core-contracts) enabling programmatic enforcement.
• Checks types supported: contract YAML supports schema validation, missing/duplicate/invalid values, freshness, distribution, row counts, and other custom quality constraints.
• Integration with Soda Cloud & Agent: when used with Soda Cloud or the Agent, checks can sync with cloud-based contracts and dashboards.