HighQSoft has published a new four-part guide, “Why We Built HQL, the ASAM ODS Query Language.” The guide is written for the Lead Test Engineer and IT Manager who run or evaluate an ASAM ODS test data management system and face a practical question every deployment reaches. How will the team actually query ASAM ODS data day-to-day, and who has to write the code to make it happen? It is a buyer-facing argument, not a developer manual, and it explains why HighQSoft built its own query language rather than living with the cost of raw API access.

The guide starts with an honest account of why raw ASAM ODS access is demanding. The ASAM ODS API is generic by design, one interface serving every organization's application model, and that generality is exactly why a simple request turns into a small software project. An official example that returns a single result set runs to around 150 lines of resolving identifiers, building typed arrays, and decoding a typed value union cell by cell. The guide also explains why the two common escapes, running SQL against the database and exporting files, trade a known problem for a worse one.

It then shows what a purpose-built query language changes. HQL replaces a page of API code with one readable line, runs against the ODS server so access rights and model constraints stay enforced, and loads the application model so engineers query using their organization's own element names. Because it reads like SQL, an engineer who knows a SELECT statement is productive quickly, and relationship navigation, inline unit conversion, date arithmetic, and mass data access are built into the query itself.

The guide closes on reach and adoption. The same HQL query runs unchanged across Java, the command line, MATLAB, REST, Python through pyHQL, and the browser, and it is the language HighQSoft's MCP Server for ASAM ODS generates when an engineer asks a question in plain English. The result is self-service test data access, where engineers get answers in minutes instead of filing a request and waiting on the few people fluent in the API.

The guide is available on the HighQSoft website at Why We Built HQL, the ASAM ODS Query Language. It links to the HQL query language product page for teams ready to see the full capabilities or request a demonstration.

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