# Qubole Reviews **Vendor:** Qubole **Category:** [Big Data Integration Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-integration-platforms) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 259 ## About 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. ## Qubole Reviews ### 1. Terrible for query iterations, good for historical record **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** You can find past queries and results pretty easily if they are within a recent timeframe, this is good for having a record of your work and being able to see what you ran if you are not good about keeping your own documentation of your projects. It is also nice that qubole when paired with a datalake allows for the use of partitions, so you may store lots of historical data and be able to query a smaller timeframe without it taking forever. This feature is not available in the other engine that I use so I tend to chose qubole when looking at events or other large data sources within my work. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** You cannot exit a query without running or your changes will be deleted, this means you need to run a new query and clog up your history for every single iteration you want to make which makes it difficult to discovery within your query history. Search is terrible, results will not show up for queries run a long time ago so you won't know the results you received on the original run, which may be different if you run it now. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working as a data analyst, it functions as a necessity for analysis, I appreciate the use of partitions which are possible with qubole and will only use this engine when in need of partitions and I use qubole to query large tables with event data or other large data which I would not have access to elsewhere because of impossibly long run time without the use of a partition. ### 2. Review of Qubole **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - I LOVE and now depend on the history section of qubole. I like that I don't have to think about potentially losing my old work. I also enjoy the share-ability of qubole. The sharing of links was definitely not intuitive in the beginning but now I really enjoy it. I like the the potential of notebooks. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Initial impression of qubole was honestly not that great because of the UI being not intuitive. The scheduling UI is still awful, I have to keep filtering to go back to my failed schedules since it always only shows the active ones. Notebook graphing capabilities is very lacking in features right now as well. The auto populate in the editor is always kind of laggy. The search functionality in analyze only searches in the current schema you are in which sucks because if I knew which schema it was it I wouldn't need to search. I wish I can actually graph directly from my queries similar to how mode does it. Right now I realize my work flow is always I query and download results and have to pivot things in google spreadsheets. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows me to easily query using multiple querying engines. I love the history section. I love how can I share everything in qubole easily. ### 3. Qubole has been great so far! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Civic & Social Organization | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** As a salesperson, Qubole is the only way I am able to track my sales at my organization. It is essential to my daily tasks (surprisingly) and I check it multiple times a day. This is surprising for someone who does not work in data! I like how essential it is to my day to day. I honestly don't know where I'd be without it. I like the convenience of it- how you can easily save reports and re-run them every day if needed. It's accessible for sure **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes, I'll run into errors with generating a report and I won't know why. If you aren't super data-savvy or code-savvy, you'll be super confused and have no idea what you did wrong. Sometimes Qubole doesn't make clear what you did wrong or hat you're missing. I believe there might be some integration time error from my company's end too but not sure since I don't work in data. We also did a migration from API to us on Qubole and that was an extremely lengthy process. Not sure if that has to do with Qubole or it has to do with my organzatiom/ **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** - Be familiar with data. I have no idea what I'm doing sometimes. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** My organization's inability to track my sales as a sales agent! Qubole makes my life easier. I can get credit for clients that I have worked with, versus having to dig for it. ### 4. Definitely not hassle free **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It's open source and it works well, when it works. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Having to wait for the cluster to start to edit notebooks is a major hassle. Most of the time you can't even visualise the notebooks without a cluster being running. Environments don't seem to work most of the time. The libraries installed by default are very old and often incompatible. Zeppelin doesn't have histogram (one of the most important plots ever) as part of its easy-plotting feature (if I'm adding more code to use the bar plots then I might as well use a proper plotting library). Cluster setup is not very intuitive. The whole thing just crashes if you display too much data (e.g.: forget to limit the number of rows). Plotly's tool bar is not rendered properly (buttons are displayed all over the place, instead of their appropriate locations). Too many autoscaling issues. Very cryptic error messages and exceptions. The notebook saving mechanism sometimes loses data (i.e.: characters I just typed disappear). Strange bugs reading parquet files from S3 (only works on a certain clusters). Strange bugs changing clusters (error messages - I often have to export the notebook and reupload them just to change clusters!). **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Try it first. See if you can put up with the current issues and solve high-priority problems before committing to it. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Just using machine learning to train predictive models for blast design. ### 5. Good Tech, Bad Stability **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yili Y. | Data Scientist/Analytics Consultant II, Outsourcing/Offshoring, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The way you can access, analysis and viz data in a single place. Plus it's faster to run queries in qubole **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebook is not stable and it's hard to op in python env in the platform. Running different script at the same time is also not by default somehow. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have been doing data reporting and nlp in qubole. with qubole, we don't have to worries about computing power and data storage process. ### 6. Works okay but occasional issues **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hong Z. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** easy to use. there is support service which is very helpful to me **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I often encounter problems when using qubole. Some of the issues were for plotting graphs and installing packages. It would be better for the users if these features are more stable. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Easy to use **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analytics problems. Qubole is convenient to use and it helps me to manager my cluster. That is the main benefit I see. ### 7. Good tool for SQL users **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shruthi N. | Business Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole interface is really good and the best part about it using data from spark,presto etc. Beta version of it reduces time to generate output compared to the normal one. Examples in Qubole helps us to learn more about the code, which is not available in other data platforms. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It becomes a little slow to display the output while dealing with large data **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** improving the speed might be good. For one of the query, it took 15 minutes to generate the output. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to extract data of the market place and analyse the sample to check the sanity of the data. ### 8. Qubole has the best support in big data platforms **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 13, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole has provided us with best in class support for their big data platform. This enables us to help users at our organization better regarding their queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I haven't had any issues with the Qubole Platform yet. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data Ingestion, Aggregation ### 9. A good tool, could be a lot better **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ease of having a cluster with different configurations, and ability to bifurcate the clusters with different frameworks. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** UI is bit sluggish. Too many UI updates, and could better focus on back-end issues. Documentation can be made a lot more clearer. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Have a VPC setup, choose the right scale. The support team is excellent. Consult them for a good amount of time at the start. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Biggest benefit is not having to worry about setting up, maintaining and cleaning up any Big Data cluster. Happy to have presented with different frameworks to handle various kind of workloads and ease of scaling. ### 10. Very satisfied with Qubole as a Platform and Support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 26, 2020 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - It works !! - Rich Feature set - Easy to use - Best support I have worked with till date - Cares about Customer Success **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Security Cost increasing with more usage **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Scalable, Optimized, Elastic DataPlatform in AWS ### 11. BEst place to find and query **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Manjul S. | Associate Software Developer, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ease and simplicity of UI, with multiple options to run to query data. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Would be interesting if it can give right away suggestions for different available options. Could you please let me know if you are going add these options? **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Its good, use different options. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qubole for querying our AWS and Hive tables. ### 12. Qubole is user friendly and always works **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Market Research | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like how user friendly it is and how easy it is to search through different queries that were run. It is also great how easy they made it to collaborate with others within the organization. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There's nothing I dislike, the platform works great. It would be nice to be able to do additional analyiss right in qubole (pre-built) **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Qubole is great! It will save you significant time. It is user friendly and has a variety of features that help user collaborate. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has made my work quicker. There are no problems ### 13. Fast Reliable MapReduce Compute Processing in the Cloud with Qubole **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Notebooks and package usage for data scientists to create complex scalable clusters fully managed by Qubole allows Disney to pull insane amounts of data for analysis **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Integration with AWS is not as seamless as it was first POC. SAML integration is also not set up with Disney MyID due to software compatibility **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole addresses the mapReduce cloud management need with a licensed version. It also provides the feature called notebook which drastically changes the way data scientists does their day to day job. The benefit is auto scaling and management of clusters. ### 14. Qubole Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the ease of use of qubole, they do all the settings and parameter programming for you so you can just run a query without thinking about anything! **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI could be better, especially the search function. It is quite hard to search for anything that was run further than 30 days ago.. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Problems! It is the most useful tool to query large data sets and get insights straight from a SQL query. You can also create templates that other people can use (especially when they don't all know SQL) ### 15. Qubole Makes Work Worth While **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface is easy to navigate and to run a report, it is also fairly easy. The only tricky part is understanding what SQL code to use if you do not have any background on SQL code. The templates that are available makes it easier to run a report on specific queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** As I am only working on a specific type of report, I barely have any issues with Qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** The report that I work on is mainly on pulling custom variables when we have a pixel down on a client's website. ### 16. Getting better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Hive queries work great. I don't recall ever having an issue. If something goes wrong in Hive, there is usually a clear path to resolution. New features for Zeppelin notebooks are steadily arriving and making Qubole's version of Zeppelin stand out from others. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Zeppelin notebooks can be troublesome. Issues are hard to replicate which makes them more frustrating to use. However, as time goes on, the issues are fewer and I am learning workarounds. A lot of the notebook issues are Zeppelin-specific and do not have to do with Qubole - who are working hard to improve that experience. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You will be happy with the Hive query capabilities. Make sure you test your specific use cases for notebook use. With careful cluster setup and management and recognizing the inherent limitation in Zeppelin itself, you will be happy. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Machine learning to model and predict various business outcomes. Data cleaning. Data ETL. Exploratory data analysis. Scheduled jobs to populate dashboards. ### 17. Qubole experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The best thing about qubole is the fast processing of big data. Earlier my data used to take 10 minutes to load but with the qubole coming in picture, it has been reduced to 3minutes only which is very beneficial for me. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The only thing I dislike is lack of good UI. It is sometime difficult for me to move around but if we can get a chatbot or something of a stuff to guide, it will be a great help **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It is best for big data. Go without a doubt **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are loading big data to the server and processing long query with the qubole. The data loading and receiving time is the best in qubole. It help me in getting data in a fraction of time ### 18. Good product but could be made more user-friendly **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** That you have access to pretty all data within the database. Being able to save templates as well helps a bunch. It's also straight forward to see which dimensions you can pull per database table. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It's not the greatest if you have limited coding skills. Currently until my understanding improves I have to rely on my trading desk to help me out. Having a variety of users guides available would help myself and my team a ton. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Conversion data attributed to our campaigns is the main reason I use it. ### 19. Great for testing PySpark programs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dorian M. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I can test my PySpark programs before in order to avoid errors in production **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The limits for downloading data. Maybe Qubole allows downloading more than 1.00 rows but I don't know the correct way **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You should consider using Qubole is a great tool and it is very helpful **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Retrieving data from Hive databases ### 20. True SaaS experience in Big Data Analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alexander E. | Lead BI Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** SaaS nature of the product, not a IaaS like EMR. Permanent history of all command, scripts, queries. Ability to start/down cluster on demand without calling additional API, just by submitting the actual query. Ability to get log back to client through REST API. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Some UI sections look redundant from functionality point, like Explorer overlaps with Analysis in many aspects. I think it would be better to unify them. Some weird glitches are annoying, for example when the Spark logs are disappeared. The big disadvantage is proprietary extensions of open source products made by Qubole. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Evaluate a product for real use case **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Clickstream event processing, search events processing. Funnel reports, corporate analytics, etc ### 21. Surprisingly easy to use **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aldo O. | Big Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I especially like how easy it is to trigger commands, not only from the Qubole console but also using the REST API to trigger actions from our custom scripts. Also, being able to switch between technologies such as Hive, Presto and Spark with a simple dropdown is great. Finally, the capability of switching between environments to sandbox changes **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebooks are sometimes unstable and we get weird exceptions that are solved by waiting for a little while and retrying. Also, the displayed tables are not automatically refreshed. Qubole lacks some good videos to explain how to configure the interpreters and add custom artifacts; I had a hard time finding that out on external forums **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** More documentation on the REST APIs to facilitate the usage **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running adhoc queries on our datalakes and increase/decrease the size of our cluster on demand. We also connect our scheduler to this platform to submit jobs on a regular basis. Whenever we want to take a look at something in particular, we review the logs and find the job id to dig into the logs. The most important benefit we've experienced is the cost reduction of using our cloud provider since Qubole expands and shrinks the clusters accordingly and it is extremely easy to use. ### 22. Very Useful for Account Executives **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability to pull queries regarding current/new customers. This is very helpful for Account Executives who handle a wide range of clientele and need to keep tabs on buying behavior. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I find that within our organization, Qubole often experiences outages. Sometimes we're unable to run queries for up to a day at a time. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving the problem of not knowing which customers sign up online instead of with a direct rep. This helps us assign appropriate commission to our reps which is very helpful. ### 23. Its just so simple **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aayush K. | FMT, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** saved queries can be run and there is an active learning session on the platform. We are promoting it amongst our ecosystem **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Its a bit slow when query is more than 500 lines. Yeah thats a problem you know **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Keep Going **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Science. Data analysis ### 24. Great for Big data workload processing **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy and user friendly UI, Self explanatory workflows to configure new jobs, policy etc. It will be beneficial for the user to know some idea about the Cloud providers in terms of workloads, system configurations etc. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Not sure if Qubole now supports other cloud providers. It will be nice to have more control on the user/team permissions on what level of access can be provided and projects can be shared. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Know about data processing requirements and data privacy requirements for the customer. Qubole takes care of it and it is fast and easy. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data processing for data analytics and downstream consumption.. Running data processing in the Cloud and able to choose the system configurations helps running workloads in an efficient manner. ### 25. Great experience working with Qubole **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Great team Easy to work with Quick turn around ton the reported issues **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometime we feel the data we need for our feedback loop is missing and have to keep asking for it. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big Data Analytics BI ### 26. excellent product to analysis the Financial data. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I fully support these characteristics, but I can also add interest and motivation. If the developer is not interested in what he does, the result will be appropriate. I’m lucky that I found blockchain geeks and they fully satisfy all my needs by this Qubole tool. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** as of now not finding much difficulty and its quite user friendly even for non software background people **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** its best tool for F& A who work on more technical financial **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** With help of qubole we can merge any data table along with can analysis financial data for projection and forecasting ### 27. Excellent managed service for Spark, Hive and Presto **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Very good customer support. The support team has worked very closely with us whenever we have had any issue. Their service is great for managed Hive, Spark and Presto. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Their UI does have some issues which tends to display cached configs instead of the current configs. Additionally their access control over their clusters can be better. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having a managed service for Query engines has been very useful. It's a lot lesser maintenance when compared to running your own EMR for instance. ### 28. Great service, product and support **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** If you want to setup a robust big data engineering and analytics stack Qubole is the most eligible solution out there. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There isn't anything to dislike with Qubole at this point. We have been one of the their early customers and over the years we have fed our requirements to them as we went along adopting the service. They have responded really well in accommodating our asks into the product **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole helped a lot in data democratization across our org. ### 29. Scaling Machine Learning Platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pradeep J. | Principal Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - Excellent customer support and the relative ease in getting started. - Continued Qubole rep support in spite of internal organizational reorgs. - **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Does not offer much in addition to the Spark UI for monitoring, alerting and debugging. Features like profiling or suggesting improvements to job parameters will go a long way. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** - Excellent customer support, the ability to raise issues and receive support is phenomenal - Good breakdown of costs - Stable as a company - Not a big sales push, the product speaks for itself **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Pipeline and Machine Learning Scoring/Feature Extraction Data Transformations Real Time Streaming Analytics ### 30. Good but somewhat unreliable **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The tool allows for the analysis of large amounts of data. If you know SQL you can work with Qubole. Scala would be a plus. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** My clusters sometimes seem unreliable. There are scripts set to run on startup that just don't get kicked off 1/5 times causing me to have to restart the cluster **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use it to track attributes in a data base over time for analysis. We write back the results to be shown in dashboards ### 31. One stop solution to all the big data analytics problems. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Semiconductors | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole provides all the right tools and frameworks to solve all the analytical business use cases and put them into production. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes configuring the required set of parameters for scaling and debugging such issues is a complicated process. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Good one stop solution to all the big data analytical solutions. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I develop machine learning models and deploy them in Qubole. Qubole has helped me trim down the cycle time of a project from 4 weeks to 2 weeks. ### 32. Ease of use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kevin C. | Security Compliance Strategist, Transportation/Trucking/Railroad, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The support staff has been very friendly and do try their utmost to assist us with our use cases. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Environments are different across companies, and there will be differences in how a solution is implemented - occasionally, the support staff will suggest a somewhat plug and play solution which will not work for us. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are able to ingest data much quicker and efficiently now, with lesser downtime and more bandwidth to do other stuff. ### 33. Useful for work, but can be confusing to navigate **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ease of running queries, ability to save commands, ability to look at tables and columns **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Having to tab back and forth between things (tables, queries-- I often need to go back to check columns in tables, and sometimes I somehow accidentally end up clicking away from my query). Also have trouble sorting through history sometimes/finding old queries **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Has helped a lot with checking production data to debug issues and actually analyze how something is working ### 34. Can be used for multiple purpose **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yunshu L. | Research Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Hive, python, pyspark, etc all can be used in qubole and qubole notebook. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebook freeze some times, not able to make plots in qubole notebook. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly run spark code, it can make my job run in parallel ### 35. Great for Use w/ Zendesk Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Love the dashboards. Provides concise and easy to use information and my fingertips, without having to dig. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Only downside is that there is almost too much data. Sometimes it is easy to get lost. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysis of big data. We use Qubole to help parse through our Zendesk data, which can be confusing. It gives me, as a manager, easy access to insights to allow me to make quick decisions that impact the business. ### 36. Query execution time **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Design | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole enables a platform to handle varieties of code base. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The time taken by Qubole to execute each query/script is significantly high when compared to other conventional methods.q **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Suggest to work on improving the performance time in Qubole for any kind of executions. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole is a common Hub where i can execute my SQL queries as well as Python/Spark scripts. Also to schedule a script and monitor the execution in real time. ### 37. Use Qubole for adhoc testing, dev environment and integration testing of big data applications. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Autoscaling over spot nodes, cluster lifecycle management and static cluster label endpoints over qubole rest API and sdk are the core features that make Qubole the first choice to develop big data applications. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI is sometimes very slow to load and it takes forever to load the analyse page jobs after clicking. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qubole for our bursty dev environment, dev testing workloads and occasional integration testing before releases. ### 38. Great tool to see and play around with the data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vahini U. | Systems Engineering Intern, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It was very easy to use and figure around and find my way. Scripting and running queries was failry basic as a person who was completely new to cloud platform! **What do you dislike about Qubole?** When i would run my code overnight, The socket would crash and stop the code. It was a little annoying. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to find patterns in available data to figure trends and performance in old cases. ### 39. Good experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jacker M. | Manager, LatAm & EMEA, MediaMath Support , Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The way tables and contents are organized and also the easy way of running queries, seeing errors and getting results. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Large results are unable to export using the tool. I know that we can use a different url to export it, but we need to get API-key and query id and access a different tool to do that. It would be better to run it seamlessly. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** I dont have any. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qubole to get raw logs for events related to entities we have in our platform. ### 40. A useful query program **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Connor E. | Operations Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Overall, Qubole works pretty well for my needs. I enjoy the overall layout, it's rather easy to navigate and to browse old queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** My queries taking a long time to run. I'm not sure if this is specific to the queries i'm running or the tables I'm pulling from, but it does take longer for me to run a Qubole query than some other similar softwares. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to better understand our data and to make reports that get shared internally. ### 41. Good support team and fast **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Niket A. | Principal Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Good support team and easy to provision all cluster **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes qubole is unresponsive or down for few min but overall good **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to provision cluster ### 42. Great for machine learning development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I liked that Qubole allowed for real time collaboration with my team on our project, and that it provided high powered cloud computing to speed up our machine learning training. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I disliked that Qubole did not let me export our python notebooks in a file format that Juypter notebook would readily take. I really wanted to be able to export my python notebooks as a .ipynb file. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You should try it out! **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using Qubole to solve an image recognition problem with machine learning and advanced convolutional neural networks. The benefits realized were collaboration and the high computing power. ### 43. Good Product. But need more features **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rajesh M. | Senior Platform Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Jobs are launching as expected, Notebook is easy to use, Clusters are good to use, Logging also good **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Bootstrap script Logic is not good. Need something like Databricks library. It is taking more time to boot cluster. Need some other alternative for this with the reduced price. (Lambda) **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** No **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spark Cluster launching. Running jobs. Using notebook to do analytics. ### 44. Good product - would use **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It's very efficient while using it - managing clusters is a lot more seamless because of Qubole. I also like that it is connected to okta, and I like that it has **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I don't have a whole lot I dislike but it was not very intuitive to use at first. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has helped with maintaining clusters and detecting issues quickly. ### 45. Single platform for all Big Data processing problems **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Job Pipelining, testing, debugging, resource optimization, rerunning, seamlessly handle resource availability issue and fallback. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** EMR Job execution logs availability issue. Sometimes one cannot go back to even a few days older job logs for debugging. Tools throw error "Failed to fetch logs". **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Qubole for most of our EMR and Spark pipeline execution. Stable pipeline execution and better monitoring. ### 46. Platform for Big Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 12, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Running big data queries on multiple platform like Hive, Presto etc. is like a dream. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** On presto query just give up even it reached till 99%. Should be good to have retrieved data instead of running query again **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data query and build notebooks on the top of it to analyze data. ### 47. Best IPaaS demo by AWS Snowflake Partner **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** 1- Walk though of the product 2- Understanding our need and mapping the product accordingly. 3- Live demo **What do you dislike about Qubole?** 1- Was expecting some free credit to explore the capabilities. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Focus on business goals and let the Infra be managed by Qubole **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large Scale Hadoop workload with easy to user UI interface and resource manageability ### 48. Valeriy Borysyuk's Qubole review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Valeriy B. | Software developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole provides easily accessible history of all queries with results, I can share Query ID with query itself and it's results with someone else in my team or across the company. This is the killing feature really. Also clusters are started, scaled and shut down on demand. Also excellent Qubole support. They help to resolve all problems, simple and complex ones. Qubole also developed a lot of features, like Hive-JDBC-Storage-Handler for accessing other JDBC data sources from Hive, and many other features. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Impossible to run Hive from the shell script. Impossible to execute simple light-weight shell without Map-Reduce started. When using GUI, need to re-login every few minutes, this is annoying feature. I'd prefer my sessions not to expire during my working day. Cost views are heavy and it seems query costs even when it stuck waiting for resources and not running at all. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You can access lot of tools for data processing such as Presto, Hive, RDBMS, etc. using the same API and GUI. Also Qubole supports AirFlow clusters. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running Data Warehouse using different tools using the same GUI and API. Easy development because of reach unified API. ### 49. A solid managed platform for Spark **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt E. | Software engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole simplifies the operational side of running Spark clusters and jobs, both scheduled and ad-hoc. It allows researchers and data engineers to focus on business logic instead of platform maintenance and tuning. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Once you have a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. Sometimes the overhead of running a Spark job dominates the actual data processing work to be done. See the blog post "Don't use Hadoop when your data isn't that big" and think about whether you might achieve faster turnaround without reaching for Spark. Initial exploratory work, especially, can go faster if you just run everything from a fast laptop without any distributed processing. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It's a solid choice if you want some of the most popular Big Data tools and don't want to spend time maintaining them yourself. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're performing content and user classification, content NLP, and user activity analytics with Qubole. We've been able to standardize around Spark and Qubole for batch jobs so that there's a common reference framework used by everyone on the team. We also don't need to devote time to maintaining the cluster and can focus on business logic. ### 50. Fantastic **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Endy L. | Commissioner, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy to setup, use, and maintain. End to end Big Data (Lake) Complete Platform within less than an hour setup. A no brainer for any company who want to have a platform for experience users to use, or even for new beginner user to start learning and advancing their knowledge. Proven on my previous company, within 6 months, have more than 10 Data Engineers with great technical expertise with Spark, Hadoop/Hive, and Airflow. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Initially, the inconsistency on product releases, that can cause unexpected errors because of bugs. But over the time has improved significantly. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** No Brainer for companies who are looking for cloud native Big Data Platform. Simple to setup, great framework and environment for new user to learn Hadoop, spark, airflow, and big data in general (including Python, Data Science stuff, ML). Cost optimization, fantastic auto scaling capabilities, and fantastic Presto performance for Analytics. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Lake, Data Accessibility, Dat Automation, Data Science Workload with Spark and Python/R with Zeppelin, AutoScaling capability for Hadoop and Spark Workload, Data Preparation and Integration. ## Qubole Discussions - [How to get logs from Qubole if I run traditional jar instead of Python](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32355-how-to-get-logs-from-qubole-if-i-run-traditional-jar-instead-of-python) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [if you include bit more like Charts and graphical presentation for the financial it be more helpfull](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14602-if-you-include-bit-more-like-charts-and-graphical-presentation-for-the-financial-it-be-more-helpfull) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do I integrate elastic search with use of qubole in Tableau.](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14506-how-do-i-integrate-elastic-search-with-use-of-qubole-in-tableau) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [Whats the job oppurtunity at qubole](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14478-whats-the-job-oppurtunity-at-qubole) - 1 comment, 1 upvote - [How do i integrate more charts or graphs in Qubole Notebooks in SQL for quick visualization](https://www.g2.com/discussions/14372-how-do-i-integrate-more-charts-or-graphs-in-qubole-notebooks-in-sql-for-quick-visualization) - 2 comments, 1 upvote - [View Qubole pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-29+23%3A47%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=ad2c7619-37ce-46cc-b713-71cd56a56050&secure%5Btoken%5D=fc1d21c2a0f02631495f69b729b2dc3d7ca60bb78eaa2ec9ae34af1fae9ec216&format=llm_user) ## Qubole Features **System** - Data Ingestion & Wrangling **Model Development** - Language Support - Drag and Drop - Pre-Built Algorithms - Model Training **Database** - Real-Time Data Collection - Data Distribution - Data Lake **Data Transformation** - Real-Time Analytics - Data Querying **Model Development** - Feature Engineering **Machine/Deep Learning Services** - Computer Vision - Natural Language Processing - Natural Language Generation - Artificial Neural Networks **Integrations** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration **Machine/Deep Learning Services** - Natural Language Understanding - Deep Learning **Deployment** - Managed Service - Application - Scalability **Platform** - Machine Scaling - Data Preparation - Spark Integration **Connectivity** - Hadoop Integration - Spark Integration - Multi-Source Analysis - Data Lake **Processing** - Cloud Processing - Workload Processing **Operations** - Data Visualization - Data Workflow - Governed Discovery - Embedded Analytics - Notebooks **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization - AI Text-to-Image **Agentic AI - Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Building Reports** - Data Transformation - Data Modeling - WYSIWYG Report Design - Integration APIs **Platform** - Customization - User, Role, and Access Management - Internationalization - Sandbox / Test Environments - Performance and Reliability - Breadth of Partner Applications ## Top Qubole Alternatives - [Databricks](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (759 reviews) - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,147 reviews) - [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (705 reviews)