Qubole
Qubole is a cloud data lake platform for data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.
What Qubole is
Qubole is a cloud data lake platform for data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics. It supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, with frameworks including Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow. Workbench lets users create, save, template, and share reports and queries, with Presto SQL optimization, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration. Its Assisted Pipeline Builder combines batch or streaming sources into streaming pipelines. Qubole says it provisions and manages cloud resources, including workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying. Security controls include encryption, role-based access, and integration with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP. The platform states a 99.9% availability commitment, excluding scheduled and communicated maintenance. A full-featured 30-day trial is available, but there is no free plan. Enterprise Edition is 0.17 USD per QCU per hr and On-Demand is 0.24 USD per QCU per hr; both exclude user fees, and Enterprise Edition requires an annual contract.
Good
- Supports four listed cloud providers.
- Workbench integrates with Tableau, Looker, and Git.
- Pipeline Builder combines batch or streaming sources.
- Security controls include encryption and role-based access.
- Support is included with both paid plans.
Watch out
- No free plan; only a 30-day trial.
- Enterprise Edition requires an annual contract.
- Both paid plans exclude user fees.
- Availability commitment excludes scheduled, communicated maintenance.
Who it suits
Qubole suits teams running data and analytics workloads across cloud providers, particularly those needing machine learning, streaming pipelines, or query and reporting tools. Its paid plans may also suit organizations seeking workload-aware resource management and stated security controls.
Verdict
Qubole brings data workloads, query tools, and cloud resource management into one platform. Review the per-QCU rates and excluded user fees when considering its paid plans.
Plans and prices
From Qubole's own pricing page, checked 2 Oct 2001.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free Trial | Free | Connect to your own data · Connect to the cloud of your choice · Full-featured trial for 30 days |
| Enterprise Edition | Priced on request | Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included · per QCU per hr; requires annual contract; excludes user fees |
| On-Demand | Priced on request | Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included · per QCU per hr; excludes user fees of $108/user per month |
The facts
Each one read from Qubole's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Analytics
- Its Workbench supports authoring, saving, templating, and sharing reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Availability
- Qubole states a 99.9% availability commitment, excluding scheduled and communicated maintenance windows.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Clouds
- Qubole Data Service documentation lists AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as supported cloud providers.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Compliance
- Qubole's trust page identifies a SOC 2 Type II report and describes third-party validation for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI in its shared responsibility model.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Data workloads
- Qubole supports data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, and ad-hoc analytics workloads.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Engines
- Qubole lists Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow among the open-source frameworks it supports.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Integrations
- Qubole's Spark page lists authenticated ODBC/JDBC connections for Tableau and Looker, REST API integrations including Airflow and Oozie, and data connectors including Snowflake, Redshift, Kafka, and Kinesis.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Pipeline building
- The Assisted Pipeline Builder combines streaming or batch data sources into streaming pipelines, using fault-tolerant infrastructure.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Purpose
- Qubole describes its platform as an open, secure, multi-cloud data lake platform for machine learning, streaming analytics, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Security controls
- Qubole describes encryption, role-based access controls, and integration with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP for data access governance.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Support
- The pricing page says support is included with both Enterprise Edition and On-Demand plans.checked 2 Oct 2001
- Usage fees
- The On-Demand price excludes user fees of $108 per user per month, while Enterprise Edition excludes user fees without stating their amount on the pricing page.checked 2 Oct 2001
The company
- Headquarters
- Santa Clara, California, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2001
Money
- Scaling and cost
- Qubole says it automatically provisions, manages, and optimizes cloud resources, and highlights workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying.checked 2 Oct 2001
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