Connect Soda to Presto

Last modified on 13-Dec-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-presto

data_source my_datasource_name:
  type: presto
  host: 127.0.0.1
  username: simple
  password: simple_pass
  catalog: hive
  schema: public

Property	Required	Notes
type	required	Identify the type of data source for Soda.
host	required	Provide a host identifier.
username	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
password	required	Consider using system variables to retrieve this value securely.
catalog	optional	Provide an identifier for the catalog which contains schemas and which references a data source using a connector. See Catalog in the Presto documentation.
schema	optional	Provide an identifier for the schema in which your dataset exists.

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	CHARACTER VARYING, CHARACTER, CHAR, TEXT
number	SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DECIMAL, NUMERIC, VARIABLE, REAL, DOUBLE PRECISION, SMALLSERIAL, SERIAL, BIGSERIAL
time	TIMESTAMP, DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE, TIME WITH TIME ZONE, TIME WITHOUT TIME ZONE

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Last modified on 13-Dec-24