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What do you like best about Qubole?

Qubole is an excellent self- service platform to host Big Data. The ease of managing data on S3 which can be the end place of data, coupled with Hadoop's HDFS system provide an ideal environment for ETL processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Qubole has fewer ETL tools in comparison to its competitors. Also, cluster management seemed to be a problem sometime. A feature that allows team members to share codes amongst them will also benefit analysts working in a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

It is an amazing data lake platform to access Big Data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

I worked on Qubole in a Hadoop environment and used Hive for querying on the data. We used S3 to store clients' sales data on the back-end. Considering our database had ~150mn rows of data, I was impressed by the querying speed, even when running multiple queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Qubole Overview

What is Qubole?

Qubole is the open data lake company that provides a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. No other platform provides the openness and data workload flexibility of Qubole while radically accelerating data lake adoption, reducing time to value, and lowering cloud data lake costs by 50 percent. Qubole’s Platform provides end-to-end data lake services such as cloud infrastructure management, data management, continuous data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with near-zero administration. Qubole is trusted by leading brands such as Expedia, Disney, Oracle, Gannett and Adobe to spur innovation and to transform their businesses for the era of big data. For more information, visit us at www.qubole.com.

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Qubole delivers a Self-Service Platform for Big Data Analytics built on Amazon, Microsoft and Google Clouds

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Qubole is the open data lake company that provides a simple and secure data lake platform for machine learning, streaming, and ad-hoc analytics. No other platform provides the openness and data workload flexibility of Qubole while radically accelerating data lake adoption, reducing time to value, and lowering cloud data lake costs by 50 percent. Qubole’s Platform provides end-to-end data lake services such as cloud infrastructure management, data management, continuous data engineering, analytics, and machine learning with near-zero administration. Qubole is trusted by leading brands such as Expedia, Disney, Oracle, Gannett and Adobe to spur innovation and to transform their businesses for the era of big data.


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Qubole
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2011
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3.5 out of 5
"A good tool to use Presto and Spark with a lot of optimization and support."
A good tool to use Presto and Spark with a lot of optimization and support.
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""Great and easy to implement tool to manage big data""
I like all the great and innovative features of this. It is easy to manage big data programmatically. All the features part are easy to use and und...
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"Qubole is an amazing data lake platform for analytics"
Qubole is an excellent self- service platform to host Big Data. The ease of managing data on S3 which can be the end place of data, coupled with Ha...
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Qubole Demo - Spot Instance Management - Run data workloads at a reduced price with spot nodes without fear of job loss.
Qubole’s patented technology manages spot instance availability for workloads in a cluster without reducing the risk of data loss or job restart delays. You can streamline cloud data lake cost without impacting workload performance or productivity. Qubole increases the resiliency of these compute...
Qubole Demo - Diversified Spot Management -  Mix and match heterogeneous nodes within the same cluster, leading to more reliable clusters. Pick the most cost-effective combination of On-demand and Spot Instances for the job.
With Diversified spot management, users can maximize spot request fulfillment, minimize spot loss exposure, increase instance duration, and have faster spot autoscaling.
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Prebuilt out-of-box Dashboards to view TCO, Costs, Cluster health and Activity. Users can monitor key metrics and take actions.
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Muhammad D.
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What do you like best about Qubole?

I like all the great and innovative features of this. It is easy to manage big data programmatically. All the features part are easy to use and understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

The user interface needs to improve. When the query is executed, it returns the number of query. The notebook feature is not user-friendly. The interface is straightforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps us save a lot of costs. Massive data can be extracted easily. all function is necessary for data analysis. Support service is beneficial to me. Maintaining and cleaning big data very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

Not happy with Qubole at all, it has degraded and is not a usable production-ready tool that performs without glitches. Qubole was bought over by some other company, their tools are not stable in a production environment, and don't have customizability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Scheduling system is not reliable. As a company we used to have production jobs scheduled on Qubole scheduler, and most would fail for some reason or the other. This caused us to host our own Airflow instance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

Production ETL jobs, and machine learning projects at my school. Ease of use with notebook functionality is pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

It is easy and simple interface. easy to connect AWS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Error messages are not given properly when we are checking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accessing AWS BigData Cluster for BigData Insights Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

It is very easy to use and provides many choices with limited effort to retrieve data. For the EBS volume and the number of nodes, automated cluster termination to prevent waste, easy to turn between different languages such as Hive, Spark, Presto etc, I like the scalability function of Qubole. Clusters can be used well, registry is very fine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Perhaps a slightly confusing structuring of alternatives contributes to time usage. Wide scrolling times are needed for the notebook. Like its rival Databricks, the laptop should be easy to use. Logic is not successful bootstrap script. Much like the library Databricks. To begin the cluster, it takes more time. Do you need some other Lambda price substitute for this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

Versatile and easy-to-use tool, use the trial time to buy that suits all your needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can collect data in a very relaxed way by means of Qubole. It helped us save a great deal of money. The time required for processing was quicker, and resources were decreased due to Qubole. The scheduler is quick to set up jobs and the internal tables are saved, which are very handy when a workflow fails. The use of Qubole makes exchanging resources simpler. Spark Cluster launch. Launch. Works are executed. Using the scientific notebook. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

I like the very simple to comprehend and use interactive web interface for rapid analysis and creation of results. The best thing is to also view the distribution of services to your operating Spark workers through your Hadoop Cluster and your Spark Cluster. Any choice, whether it involves goods, individuals, systems, or relationships, can be driven by the data activation. To date, we have invested the most in helping organisations close the activation gap. It also offers a standard infrastructure that helps users to operate more easily on the best open source engines with the following ETL, analytics and AI/ML workloads, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

I don't like that if I press on the Notebook again, the Tables drawer closes immediately. When clearly locked, the table drawer must be opened. Qubole focuses solely on activation of results. We allow you to process all sorts of data sets, whether structured, unstructured or semi-structured, to gather useful information and create artificial intelligence-based applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

My recommendation is to take the required time learning the method first and it is very easy to use all of the research and data creation once you're used to the Qubole interface. Qubole focuses solely on activation of results. We can manage all sorts of data sets to gain useful information, whether organized, unstructured or partly structured. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm solving problems by linking AWS through the Hadoop cluster. The advantage is that I can log in from my desktop and easily type a Hive or Pyspark code sample for fast review and presentation. The SQL notebook data download option is very useful for sample data presentation. The attention of the consumer is fantastic and a must. In addition, please try to get in state-of-the-art technicians. It will first aid us to avoid reinventing wheels. It is also inspiring along with other interesting stuff for engineering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
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What do you like best about Qubole?

I can use Qubole's UI to accomplish a lot of different tasks without much effort Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Qubole Notebooks are finicky and brittle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

End-to-end ML workflows. Easy to integrate all parts of pipeline into Qubole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

Overall tool is good and so intuitive.And the the best part is when you are stuck somewhere there are support team how always above the expectitions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Qubole should bring up speed in thee DL side and the spark updated more faster to attain customers.They do not have data catalog option where wee can have lineage etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

After the new era of bigdata and clod it always a hassle to find a tools which is cost effective and user friendly to use daily basis for data extraction till data science and big data needs.This tool has capability to give hassle free experience with quick help from support and very good technical architects available to help and serve you better . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool help us in communicating the data lake,data warehouse and as well as provide us a platform for the data mining as well.Its easy to have one tool in place rather having multiple tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

Easy to start QDS instead of waiting for 5 minutes to start similar Spark environment on AWS EMR Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Unable to control underlying infrastructure unlike EMR with SSH support. Not easy for getting logs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

QDS is easy alternative to AWS EMR. If you're doing ad-hoc Big Data analytics, consider using Qubole. I like the ease with Qubole cluster comes in less than half a minute, than waiting for at least 5 minutes on EMR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

Big Data Investigation, Data Analytics, Data Quality on AWS S3 Landed (raw) and Conformed (processed) data.

Using Qubole as light-weight alternative to heavy-weight EMR cluster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Qubole?

I like that it is very easy to get started with Qubole. If you want to experiment with data lakes a bit without investing a lot of time or energy into getting your data lake set up, Qubole is great. If you like what you see and then want to productize it, Qubole makes that easier to do as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

As with any tool that simplifies entry, it also abstracts out some of the edge cases you may find yourself wanting to use with your data lake. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

Great for a quick startup, as with any new software service be ready to invest in some learning time Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

We don't have any production systems using Qubole yet, but we have a few internal projects and opportunities that are using it to accelerate their data lake work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Achilles S.
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What do you like best about Qubole?

Seamless Integration. Unparalleled Personalised Support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

The constant need to update services or request support for simpler things - don't get me wrong, the necessities are taken care of - just the smaller things need some finesse. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Qubole:

Understand the platform and learn from the tutorials + ask queries during the demonstration to help ease your access into the workings of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?

Model Compartmentalisation. Multiple Experiments. Continuous Changes and Runs of Models. Data Science Overview, Simplicity and Ease.

Benefits: Ease of Working and Scheduling; Complete Understanding of the Complicated Aspects of Data Science is covered with Qubole and the Support Team - with their professionalism in understanding the problem and their turn around time is something that makes Qubole stand out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.