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Connect Soda to Amazon Athena

Last modified on 18-Mar-24

For Soda to run quality scans on your data, you must configure it to connect to your data source.
To learn how to set up Soda and configure it to connect to your data sources, see Get started.

Connection configuration reference

Install package: soda-athena

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: athena
  access_key_id: kk9gDU6800xxxx
  secret_access_key: 88f&eeTuT47xxxx
  region_name: eu-west-1
  staging_dir: s3://s3-results-bucket/output/
  schema: public
Property Required Notes
type required Identify the type of data source for Soda.
access_key_id required 1 Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. See Manage access keys for IAM users.
secret_access_key required 1 Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely. See Manage access keys for IAM users.
region_name optional The endpoint your AWS account uses. Refer to Amazon Athena endpoints and quotas.
role_arn optional 1 Specify role to use for authentication and authorization.
staging_dir required Identify the Amazon S3 Staging Directory (the Query Result Location in AWS); see Specifying a query result location
schema required Identify the schema in the data source in which your tables exist.
catalog optional Identify the name of the Data Source, also referred to as a Catalog. The default value is awsdatacatalog.
work_group optional Identify a non-default workgroup in your region. In your Athena console, access your current workgroup in the Workgroup option on the upper right. Read more about Athena Workgroups.
session_token optional Add a session Token to use for authentication and authorization.
profile_name optional Specify the profile Name from local AWS configuration to use for authentication and authorization.

1 access_key_id and secret_access_key are required parameters to authenticate with Amazon Athena. You may add the optional role_arn parameter which first authenticates with the access keys, then uses the role to access temporary tokens that allow for authentication. Depending on your Athena setup, you may be able to use only the role_arn to authenticate, though Athena still must access the keys from a config file or environment variables.
See AWS Boto3 documentation for details on the progressive steps it takes to access the credentials it needs to authenticate.

Test the data source connection

To confirm that you have correctly configured the connection details for the data source(s) in your configuration YAML file, use the test-connection command. If you wish, add a -V option to the command to returns results in verbose mode in the CLI.

soda test-connection -d my_datasource -c configuration.yml -V

Supported data types

Category Data type
text CHAR, VARCHAR, STRING
number TINYINT, SMALLINT, INT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DOUBLE, FLOAT, DECIMAL
time DATE, TIMESTAMP




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Last modified on 18-Mar-24