--- title: Qubole Reviews meta_title: 'Qubole Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 259 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Qubole works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.0 review_count: 259 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-07' parent_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # 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. Managing your cluster problems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Russell L. | Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the fact that we can spin up different clusters for different purposes and all are managed through qubole. We don't have to deal with the headache of keeping our cluster up and running. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I don't like certain features of the python SDK and the notebooks are not as reliable as hoped. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** ETL, ML, and visualizations. I have learned that there are many use cases that can be solved with many of the scheduler tools and s3 locations alone. ### 2. Good but can get way better and smooth **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface is amazing. With respect to queries and all in handling data, it looks really easy. but at the same time, there is no visualization tool which can help us make dashboards for the queries. The tool looks complete since we can schedule queries as well as also work on large queries smoothly. The scheduler and crones are the best things I and my team uses the most. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There is no info available with respect to the limit available on the system for a particular queries. A lot of time it takes hours to run a query and it fails in the end due to limit on the amount of resources. There is no visualization for the data. Data is visible only in tabular format but no dashboard is available to track data from queries. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It is one of the easiest places for analysts people to run queries, and manage it. Despite not having enough knowledge about scheduler and crones and their background working, We are able to run large scale queries in order to make the best possible insights. One thing that bothers us is after fetching data from Qubole, we have to upload it to some dashboard management tools. Out of 10, would grade it 9 with respect to ease of use. Can improve on dashboard fact I believe **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analyzing large scale data and making meaningful insights out of it. We run, schedule and manage queries over it and use it to run about 100s of queries per day ### 3. A good tool to use Presto and Spark with a lot of optimization and support. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** A good tool to use Presto and Spark with a lot of optimization and support. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Few shortcomings are there, which can make Qubole a complete product. Requested for a lot of feature request, one of them is to restart the cluster. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** First is customization on the native source code and the billing optimization. ### 4. Strong product with good, but not quite great shortcuts and time-saving features **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I really like the ease of use of the platform. Several SQL languages are available within the platform, but I typically find the Presto SQL is sufficient to meet most of my needs and is easy to use for anyone with any prior SQL knowledge. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There are some shortcuts that other database management software companies offer that are not available in Qubole. For instance, you cannot set a default schema, so the schema must be explicitly called for every table in a query. Additionally, when using the 'Explore' tab to manually review data in a table, you cannot set-limits for the number of rows you'd like to see. Simple dimensional tables that have over ~50 rows won't display entirely due to the software's default setting of returning only 50 rows or so. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Qubole to manage data from various external sources in a data lake. My role then frequently queries the data lake to develop standard reporting and analytics for internal teams. ### 5. Decent but a lot of hassle to work with **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It's much more complete when compared to other products but at the same time also managing and handling queries or jobs are at times failed because of bugs from qubole's end which are managed very late or are time consuming **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Need to talk to the executive a lot of times while handling issues. Many times the answer is this will be fixed in next release but that is way far in future **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** A lot of times the customer would need to have a feature or things being fixed as soon as possible. It can't wait for the next release to come up, mostly when its in the production environment. It'll be great in terms of handling if the requests are made quickly without hassle **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Hadoop cluster runs over qubole'. Easy to manage resources, just need to add or subtract the count. There is no option to remove a specific nodes but still it's very easy to manage and complete as it contains scheduler, Crons etc. ### 6. Great for Presto Queries backed by S3 **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Eric X. | senior data scientist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 23, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I love the increased speed of presto versus hive and the flexible UI for adhoc queries and commands. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It is a managed cloud service and there is less visibility (or capability) to ssh into the server to make custom configurations. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to extend our capability to use Looker as an internal and external BI tool for self-service analytics to larger amounts of data that are less performant with mySQL. ### 7. Good Platform with lot of potential **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** My main like is their portal, which helps to dig in history and provide references. Given the variety of data processing engines offers flavors on need basis. And their customer support. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** delay in keep up with apache distribution. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Processing using Tez, Hive and Spark. Have not tried ml modeling yet. ### 8. Great experience as a beginner **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The notebooks are easy to use, and documentation about them was thorough. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Customer support response times if the ticket is not marked as critical/urgent. Notebooks would also sometimes be stuck on "pending" or "running" with no explanation. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I was able to train machine learning models and make database queries. ### 9. Qubole serves my needs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like that qubole has search functionality so I can easily find my DB tables **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I think sometimes the UI is slow and laggy **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to query a multitude of tables to ensure our production services are working correctly. Qubole gives us the platform to do so ### 10. Clunky UX **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like saved queries & history feature. I very often need to reference results elsewhere **What do you dislike about Qubole?** -sorting output only sorts on first 100 rows, not on all of the data. -downloading data is buried in a dropdown -its not terribly clear when you are editing an existing query vs creating a new one. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** analyzing volume, quality of data on my website. i have increased the quality and quantity as a result. ### 11. Qubole Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** The ease of use with the platform and the whole support team at Qubole **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI can be very slow sometimes. It seems like the backend infrastructure for Qubole needs some work. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are making it very easy for our data scientists/analysts to do their job more effectively. ### 12. Great tool for Data management and analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ability to connect and query S3 data sources and access different languages in one place **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The main issue is that search doesn't work so well **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** If you have data in different sources and want to use different types of query engines then it is good for you **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analysing email performance. These tables are very large and running these queries in the cloud makes them a lot quicker especially using presto ### 13. Strong Platform capabilities, needs more polish **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Capable of delivering stable platform to massive warehousing needs; the ability to customized workloads and resources to different analytical tasks has made for a flexible development environment **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Not new-user friendly, and lacking documentation around python sdk usage. While the Analyze interface has improved, I find myself still wanting a stand-alone tool not bound to a browser; a lack of query tabs is a big miss here. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** not sure **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qubole to access large amounts of data for gameplay analysis and answering complex analytical questions. I also use it to feed data to reporting toolsets for automating parts of the analysis / data monitoring process. ### 14. Excellent - User Friendly **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is very user friendly and gives lots of option to pull data with minimum effort. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** A bit complicated structuring of options, sometimes results in time consumption **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of Qubole , I can pull out data in a very convenient way ### 15. Impactful Data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability to create impactful reports is critical to my role. Qubole allows me to pull the data I need to report back to clients. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** User experience can be challenging at times running clusters. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data reporting for clients. Helps with the selling story for our products. ### 16. In short time using it, it has became one of my favorite Data Analysis tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Javier R. | BI Developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Its easy integration with other different Data Preparation tools. Ease of use and the vast existing documentation. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I haven't really found something I dislike. I think the queries are taking a lot of time, but this might be caused by the resources we have that stores Qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We store our Data Lake in Qubole. The idea is that we start using the Machine Learning capabilities to gather insights from our data. ### 17. Qubole **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** dharan s. | Mr sridharan selvaraj, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole helps my job easier like creating hive SQL and Spark Jobs. I used to create more than one query in Notepad **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole is a very slow performance. It takes ages to provide results **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Yes, Useful product for to handle the Hive Queries **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to view the Query results and. It also helps to create more than one query which helps to solve a business problem ### 18. Once place for all queries a tool for analytics person **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ravi S. | Programmatic , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - Easy interface - One place to manage all your queries **What do you dislike about Qubole?** - Need to work on export features **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Analyzing raw logs - Generating insights that help boost campaign performance ### 19. Very useful tool for querying large relational databases. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 30, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The UI is easy to use and provides a one stop shop for any possible data browsing and querying. The face the software is not tied to any cloud vendor is also a huge plus. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** An open selection of all cloud provider instance types with no explanation as to their ideal use cases causes too much confusion for new users setting up a new cluster. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** GIve it time to get used to the product and you'll end up loving its user friendly and intuitive UI. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Querying big data databases of impression logs, conversion logs, click logs.. understanding patterns and trends, investigating possible ad fraud scenarios. ### 20. Easy To USe **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Each and every transaction is recorded in Qubole even if you run a single query.if you require any query in future then can be retrieve easily **What do you dislike about Qubole?** some time server slow and takes too much time to execute a query **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Mapping in Hive ### 21. Easy sharing, but lacks functionality for work-in-process queries **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Sharing queries easily, as well as saved results to avoid having to rerun. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There's no way to save a work-in-process query, or incrementally update easily. A new query is created at every rerun. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy sharing, avoiding sharing actual snippets in dispersed locations. ### 22. Quobole a boon for SQL operations **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Quobole helps in optimum resource allocation and the billing happens only when we run query **What do you dislike about Qubole?** No ETA provided for queries. Although the mappers and reducers help **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large queries which require tons of time can be run on quobole without thinking about resource ### 23. Qubole is a useful tool that integrates spark processing with easy access to s3 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** using the qubole API token along with python qds-sdk makes spark processing & cluster/interpreter configurations seamless within modeling scripts. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI (zepelin notebook) can be extremely buggy. The customer service team is quick to respond, but sometimes the notebook UI can be unusable. Resource sharing amongst an analytics team is difficult, despite the different cluster + interpreter setting options. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** get to know parallel processing and spark workflows first to make sure those are the types of solutions you are looking for. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easily accessing large datasets from s3 to quickly analyze via pyspark/scala. The tool is ideal for distributed processing via spark. ### 24. Great experience! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is extremely simple to use and great to query different aspects of data **What do you dislike about Qubole?** A minor nitpick, but I think the UI could be a bit more intuitive **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Qubole to search through our massive datasets and collect information ### 25. Qubole Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** qubole is nifty and fast! I believe it helps us get results faster overall **What do you dislike about Qubole?** sometimes it's hard to get results for large queries **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** use wisely! don't do too many heavy queries simultaneously **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** partitioning data into smaller segments is easy ### 26. Integrated and easy to work with it **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Very easy to setup and configure clusters and the notebook integration and tools the ability to troubleshot spark jobs **What do you dislike about Qubole?** We re being trying to use Airflow in qubole but we run into some version issues **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole solved the issue of not having to run a spark cluster ourselves and the notebook integration which makes thing so much reliable and increases productivity ### 27. Sairam Kannan's Qubole review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** 1. UI ( User Interface ) 2. Customer support 3. Regular updates and features for performance improvement **What do you dislike about Qubole?** 1. Automatic query completion not available ( would love to have that ) 2. Unable to export large quantities of data. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Analyzing large sets of data for troubleshooting 2. Ease of sharing our data ( Queries / notebooks ) with others ### 28. Qubole has been great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole allows me a ton of flexibility and power **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes I find qubole to be a bit challenging to use, but there is good documentation **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole allows me to have a lot more flexibility and power ### 29. Very compelling alternatives to other Apark Spark tools **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** true auto scaling , a lot of customization, managed airflow, integration with a variety of big data tools **What do you dislike about Qubole?** readonly mode of notebooks while cluster is not running **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** yes. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** data engineering ### 30. Great for troubleshooting. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface is easy to use. They have detailed guides and it has been a smooth experience using it all these years. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Going through the error logs is probably what I dislike the most. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Use it! It's great! **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Looking at performance logs for troubleshooting. It allows me to get information as detailed as I need. ### 31. Good but not great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** Ability to make the processing very efficient and cost effective **What do you dislike about Qubole?** UX is good but not the most intuitive. I think it can be improved. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Reducing cost - Enabling interactive query processing ### 32. Grerat framework and environment **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?** Ease of infrastrucutre/resource management, notebook environment, integration of Airflow **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Doucmentation is a little tedious, but nonetheless complete. Sometimes hard to find things. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Everything. Building a datalake, data science modeling, research, workflows. ### 33. Intuitive and Efficient **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** I enjoy that everything is laid out well **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I dislike how slow it is at times. I think that there could be faster computing methods **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm pulling data regarding auction information ### 34. Qubole great for s3 querying, data movement, spark code development, data manipulation job execution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Notebook is great for manipulating s3 data in all kinds of ways. I develop spark scala code, test it, then create scheduler job to run it. I can query files for specific rows, or counts of specific data in parquet or avro. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebooks are not hooked up to git because the security setup is not simple and our company has not set it up. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Provide continuous training of new users, they're always coming on board, but need qubole education. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data pipeline code development. Fast turnaround with spark scala repl acting on s3 data. ### 35. Big Data Processing Platform With Easy On-boarding For Engineers & Data Scientists **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole has a very intuitive user interface for data scientist to run queries as well as spark jobs. It also provides in-built Notebooks that help data scientists to experiment and obtain results at a fast pace without worrying about the infrastructure setup. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes opening the spark UI of a running spark application takes longer than expected. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Consider the pricing of the EC2 instances that are used in the cluster. The prices are a bit more than the prices offered by AWS itself. Another thing to consider would be that not all EC2 types are supported by Qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qubole to extract, transform & load all the data related to customer bookings (which includes PII & PCI data) and also data related to chargebacks received from the banks. ### 36. Qubole **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S S. | Mr Selvaraj S, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is the best tool to Query hive table and creating spark jobs in graphical ways **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole performance is very slow. It needs to improve and Queries are running ages **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole solves most of our data related issues. It helps to create a bash script to automate manual process ### 37. Enjoy using Qubole for all my data related work **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the speed and efficiency of Qubole **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Occasionally run into errors when running ETL **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Qubole for our ETL process has made the entire process easier and more organized ### 38. Qubole and Big Data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher F. | Sr Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability ti switch languages to access the data! **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes it bounces the cursor up to the top of the notebook. Also not having seeing line numbers as default. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Able to set defaults and fix the bug where the cursor shoots to the top of the notebook **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Writing ETL scripts for enterprise level data sets. ### 39. Qubole Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole has very good interface. Very easy to use. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The product is slow sometimes which is frustrating. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using qubole for data analysis to get market insights. ### 40. Qubole Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface of Qubole is nice and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole is sometimes slow and lags while on important things. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analysis and marketing insights ### 41. Using quoble in sales cycles **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?** Wounded has a good UI for users without a deep technical background. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Screens can be jarring to go between a small sometimes error messages are unclear. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big Data Analytics. ### 42. Spark job logs readability is issue and time consuming **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akash G. | Senior Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** All components of development environment are integrated together which provide good development experience. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** While running jobs we can monitor logs with some dashboard having filters for exception, error name, exception type. Similar to the way we monitor splunk logs. Currently we have to go to the pain of going to driver executor once the job is completed and then figure out our issues in code. For jobs which run longer monitoring jobs is issue. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Highly Recommended **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing data analytics platform pipeline. Handling TB's of data each day. ### 43. Qubole services review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Real Estate | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Agility of the platform and the training support. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There's a steep learning curve to understand some of the internal workings of qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Cost optimization and better auto scaling. ### 44. Good nto great **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Queries run quickly, detailed logs. Lots of advanced options when needed. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It requires high level of technical knowledge to work it. It's a busy interface. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running bigger queries ### 45. Its good enough tool **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 20, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Its usable over multiple platform and integration is effortless **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI can be improved and cleaned a bit **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Core logistics in very competitive hyperlocal market ### 46. Big data analytics workload **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?** Easy to use and learn. Able to launch job on any node. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Upgrades are pretty slow when compared to industry releases. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytics & machine learning workloads. ### 47. Good service **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Good processing power. ABle to process large applications. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Time. Could be better. Large data applications, in general, take a lot of time. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Large data ml applications ### 48. Tester and Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** Usability is amazing, so easy to login and use and get to it **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Training materials could do more live interactions **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Use it **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Booking and pay storage ### 49. Engineer who uses qubole to host data processing jobs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aileen R. | Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** love the notebook functionality that allows me to test my code or run queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I can be a little confusing to navigate. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data querying, analysis, and aggregating. It has helped me run some large scale analyses on the product I work on, helping point out inefficiencies or weak areas. ### 50. Good product with some quirks **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy to get development code up-and-running on a cluster **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebooks UI is clunky and hard to use. Prefer Jupyter to Zeppelin **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blazingly fast ETL ## 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=4§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-10+01%3A17%3A00+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=364b0fdb-9dbe-48e3-aa4a-c11c76d9b18b&secure%5Btoken%5D=dd6683db8eb5f96f54bb1b97638e9d089e3a5dba328e5a64eaf14016d9badb4d&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 (1,310 reviews) - [Google Cloud BigQuery](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (1,145 reviews) - [Snowflake](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (708 reviews)