Description: Data contracts bring data providers and data consumers together.
Data contracts bring data providers and data consumers together.
A data contract is a document that defines the structure, format, semantics, quality, and terms of use for exchanging data between a data provider and their consumers. A data contract is implemented by a data product’s output port or other data technologies. Data contracts can also be used for the input port to specify the expectations of data dependencies and verify given guarantees.
The data contract specification defines a YAML format to describe attributes of provided data sets. It is data platform neutral, yet supports well-known formats to express schemas (e.g., dbt models, JSON Schema, Protobuf, SQL DDL) and quality tests (e.g., SodaCL, SQL queries) to avoid unnecessary abstractions. The data contract specification is an open initiative to define a common data contract format. Think of an OpenAPI specification , but for data sets.
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