--- 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: '2026-07-12' 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. big data as a service **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** optimizations for instant scale up and scale down **What do you dislike about Qubole?** cannot apply constraints on time and space **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** spark workloads, notebooks, hive and map reduce ### 2. Qubole Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy to use like notebooks Saves history easy to debug **What do you dislike about Qubole?** cluster and notebook are on different pages **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** query and analyze data ### 3. Slow and confusing **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Allows you to access huge data sets and store re-usable queries **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The speed of qubole leaves a lot to be desired. Error messages are cryptic and require lots of googling to figure out **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** General analysis of large data sets across multiple distributed DBS ### 4. Qubole **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** sridharan s. | Sridhar, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is very useful to query the hive table and create a set of queries in one place to run **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole is very slow, but the new version pretty much improved **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this tool to explore the data from S3 bucket ### 5. It has been a good experience overall **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** User friendly and good for analytics purposes. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Not cost effective and integration is not nice **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Nothing **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data analytics ### 6. Great Cloud Provider for Spark but can be expensive **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Defense & Space | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ease of use and API for Spark clusters on AWS spot instances. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Can be expensive. Spark logs can be tricky to find at first. Cluster bootstrap scripts are not version controlled outside qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Batch Spark jobs and pipelines for data engineering. ### 7. All my spark in one platform! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like I have a lot of options to do with my data. I can create Hive tables, run automated jobs with apis and set up my own notebooks. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** UI could be a little better. I find some configuration params a little difficult to locate. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Best affordable big data platform! **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Handling data with Spark at one place and that's amazing. We collaborate a lot and if I have to share some results or debug a job, it's super easy. ### 8. Useful for querying logs for analysis **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Useful for querying logs for analysis for troubleshooting purposes **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes, it will take a long time to complete the query if we are querying wide range of dates **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Incident triage. Ability to narrow down abnormally indata logs ### 9. self-service qubole **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 11, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** self-service, automatic learning and analysis is what this company allows you, it gives you the option of being able to base a data i **What do you dislike about Qubole?** his automatic learning has a flaw in the sense that gives error after a series of basic commands and starts to give errors everything started **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Work in simple and orderly language so you do not have loss of data or base **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are verifying a data base and with qubole to place an automatic data annex system ### 10. Practical **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Single Interface to access all available functionality **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Inability to know in more details what went on when something failed **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Learn all of the features available to you and most importantly understand the architecture and components in the architecture so that you can leverage them in your solutions. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data Movement to Federated Area. The benefits that I realized is the ability to have multiple data processing environments at our finger tips ### 11. Simple and reliable **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hicham E. | Technical Product Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The simplicity of the tool, as querying user The possibility of consuming the results programmatically **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The main pain point I have with Qubole, is its performance, it has a tendency of running slower when executing queries, compared with AWS Athena (both using Presto SQL), Athena is much faster The other concern is cost. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to aggregate multiple datasets and make sense of them, in order to make guided business decisions ### 12. Analytics is done on pyspark but there is no user friendly interface for graphs and plots they want **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Goods | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Noyhing it is so slow .jupyter notebook is the best. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Everything in disliked. It is very bad . I cant tell anything after this now. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data science in pyspark ### 13. Great Product for data analytics **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - Easy to use, expressive syntax. - Is scalable to bid data. - Has a rest api to start jobs and read results. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** - I wish there was a way to generate graphs and plot data, to see trends - No good realtime capability - Sometimes it not easy to figure out how to tune a job and speedup the query. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** A great product. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Data Analytics - Error Monitoring ### 14. Very useful tool on a daily basis **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The fact that it can autoscale based on needs is very important when it comes to running extermely large data processing and also reducing cost when not needed. Most of the latest big data tools are available in one place to pick and choose from. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Would be nice to have some scheduling mechanism to run automated jobs **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to interact through qubole client and get results as needed ### 15. Great IDE for SQL Queries **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability to write code from scratch but still have access to analytics tools and recommendations **What do you dislike about Qubole?** If you would like to run multiple reports of the same kind, the table name defaults and we lose alot of time going back into the script to change table names. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Merge our data between the many platforms we operate across. The DMC allows us space for these to meet in the middle ### 16. Qubole **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The speed of data generation, multiple coding languages support and flexibility for scalability. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Limited integrations without engineering resources. It isn't the best tool to use as "self-service" for non-technical teams. It has its challenges **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Providing core business and product data to marketing teams. We enabled a self-service data "app" by just adding the Qubole layer rather than build the whole thing ourselves, as a MVP/interim. ### 17. Great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Able to utilize many different tables - smart query is great for getting started with everything - enjoy all of the dashboards **What do you dislike about Qubole?** still takes some time getting accustomed to, could use some more product training maybe straight from the qubole team themselves unless there is information online to better learn platform. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Recommend using the dashboards provided. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reporting discrepancies/out of geo discrepancies. Ad Tech related. ### 18. Good but not great **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Tracking of jobs, history, etc. selection of clusters, env. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** the user interface has many issues... like how about being able to highlight, copy and paste text from the navigator on the left. table lists, s3 lists sometimes stop expanding and have to reload. Attempting to rename a task is unpredictable, sometimes it works, mostly it does not. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Qubole is excellent for simplified access to various data sources. There's really no other option out there that I would recommend. Notebooks is a must-have for the speed of execution if you can wait a few minutes, stick with Analyze. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** data analysis and transformation ### 19. Easy way to do ad-hoc and saved queries of large data **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the standard SQL syntax for queries and the quick table display to see columns available. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Queries can be slow so be sure to limit the amount of data searched via date ranges. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qubole about once a week to answer questions from management, find areas that are failing, validate new features are working, and see user behavior ### 20. new clusters **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** able to query data from the cloud by using different connections **What do you dislike about Qubole?** cluster health, often cluster is turning off **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** ad hoc reports, validation checks ### 21. Daily Qubole User **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jason M. | Lead Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is a simple entry into big data analytics. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I don't like the speed of updates to Airflow clusters. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** What about Serverless? Qubole currently requires someone to manage/configure the different cluster. I seems that most cloud service providers are moving to serverless approach (e.g. BigQuery, AWS GLUE) **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole offers cost saving for Spark clusters with auto scaling (up/down) ### 22. Competent product but could use more usability features **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?** It's relatively easy to look up tables and the columns within the tables. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The search feature is relatively unintelligent - if I don't enter the exact phrase, no results come up. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I look up member activity through SQL queries. Qubole is significantly easier to use than the previous solution for SQL queries (Python). ### 23. Very Buggy, Bad Interface - Do Not Use **Rating:** 0.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like that Qubole supports many query engines and has a rich array of features. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole has a very glitchy, poppy interface and presents many unclear error signals and warnings. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qubole for analysis, exploration, and mostly to work out queries we want to run as part of a production workflow later. ### 24. Easy for accessing and manipulating large data! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Very intuitive and friendly UI, easy to setup my commands and analyze data **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There's not too much downside from my own experiences. I haven't run into a case where I wish there was something else I could do. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data analytics, job scheduling, data distribution (from s3 to other sources) ### 25. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Its very easy to use and the UI is well-designed. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** - Mostly, qubole fits my need to use Hive to query the databases - It would be useful if Qubole had a strong online community where issues were discussed. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly, I use qubole to query through our S3 datasets ### 26. Great tool for managing huge datasets **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It's easy to connect to existing data sources. Queries are easily structured, fast, and the platform provides flexibility to manage complex data needs. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Some learning curve for more junior employees. Table previews don't always load properly in some browsers. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing consumer data and marketing performance. Faster answers to business questions. ### 27. Very easy to use data platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yaroslav T. | Senior Software Engineer, Lead, Internet, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about Qubole?** With Qubole I really like the simplicity of UI as well as a very powerful backend - I can select a variety of execution engines like Hive, Presto, Spark, etc. and get going in seconds. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I think Notebooks can be improved. Stream processing capabilities are also missing right now. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data engineering / platform / ETL. Qubole provides solid foundation as well as allows other teams and departments to access the data through the unified UI. ### 28. Spark CLuster **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The scheduler and the cluster up speed...Its amazing how we can change the settings so easily. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes the interpreter stops working. The interpreter has to be closed and restarted at times. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** usually regarding metrics or automation or something related to business which makes a huge impact. ### 29. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Maintenance support is good. Good support with new features **What do you dislike about Qubole?** They delay their releases a lot. Although temporary fixes are given, they have to improve their release speed **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** They delay their releases a lot. Although temporary fixes are given, they have to improve their release speed ### 30. Turns Querying into a fun **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability to save queries, save them in clusters and rerun . Also it makes it easy to run it via the python api based on the query id and easier to share it with colleagues **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It needs a better User Interface. The current one suits may be data professionals but isnt analyst friendly. Make it like alation **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** A good tool for running your big-data queries **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running queries to analyze data Saving reusable queries and output the data into clusters ### 31. Best tool for building big data pipelines and analyst life becomes so easy with this product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sadik S. | Software Engineer Test, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Their UI so intuitive. Whenever you face any issue with the product their support will for sure resolve it in no time **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There is nothing to dislike about their product. Sometimes zepplin hangs in between probably that can be fixed **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Building pipelines Analysis ETL ### 32. UI needs a little big of polish **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Capital Markets | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Not having to worry about the details of spinning up machines **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The left panel bar keeps disappearing on my when I click elsewhere. This is really my only gripe **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Filtering large amounts of data. Easier than maintaining my own cluster ### 33. Ease of use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like that qubole is very easy to use however it does not take away from the large jobs and many things that it can perform. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I do wish there was a way to connect it to power bi **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Troubleshooting and analyzing data. ### 34. Hive QL **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sridharan S. | Software Development Engineer In Test, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It is easy to use and easy to write a collection of HQL in Notepad **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Performance of the Query is very slow.I think, New version of Qubole have lots of improvment **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Spark and Querying data from Hive table ### 35. UI is clear and simple to use. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** We can easily check the available database and table, and further check the columns in the table. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** When the output table is large, I cannot easily download the completed result from UI. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big Data Analysis. ### 36. Using qubole **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Telecommunications | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I use qubole to do queries for database information to verify product or customer action information. It’s certainly useful. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The interface is slow, and can lag often. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Getting real time database information to inform product decisions. ### 37. A multicloud abstraction layer **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole is a multicloud abstraction layer which decouples your big data setup with underlying cloud provider. Faces stiff competition with AWS where there feature advantages have eroded in last few years but still a good choice from the perspective of their user experience and level of support. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Specifically compared to AWS, its feature edge has eroded over time as aws's big data stack has evolved.0 **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** BI data platform - good consistent user experience.l ### 38. Seamless integration with EC2 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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?** Cost has drastically come down because of spot instances. Very stable with TBs of data **What do you dislike about Qubole?** More fine-grained access control for uers. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Datawarehousing and big data analytics ### 39. Great experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Simple, straight forward, organized, and easy to learn. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Does not have any particular complain :D **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole help me to easily query tracking data within my organization. ### 40. Qubole-My best friend for work **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy to use UI and great intergreation with AWS. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Takes too long to run a query. The schdeduler service should have a "send result to email" **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Analytics. ### 41. Qubole review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The ability to integrate multiple datasources and query them together. The SQL query interface , makes it easy to use for product people too **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I think, the user interface could use some modernization plus native qubole clients would be better. Also, if you can estimate the time to complete the query, would be nice **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ability to query large datasets efficiently and easily ### 42. A comprehensive platform **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Leisure, Travel & Tourism | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy navigation in the UI, ability to have an overview of all available clusters in a click, notebook integration **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Tableau integration is very lackluster. Notebook feature is not always very user friendly and the ui can feel unresponsive at times due to heavy load. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - ### 43. qubole review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 04, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Faster than our previous analytics solution. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Filtering on columns for a query can be a pain, especially when the column names are too long (example: there's a **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** For our team in particular, we use it to track requests in the web api. ### 44. Easy to use for analytics **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface is intuitive and easy to use. History of saved queries is a big plus. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Performance, finding the right queries, type-ahead could improve. It would be great if the results can be easily sorted/filtered etc. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Insights into user-behavior, troubleshooting, service health. ### 45. Easy to setup spark cluster, but without jupyternotebook support **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy to set up easy to manage spark/hadoop/hive cluster **What do you dislike about Qubole?** No support of jupyter notebook, no ability to add few ssh key for access to cluster **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running ETL jobs and publish data in redshift for future analytics ### 46. Feedback **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The notebook was a good feature to execute a series of codes in one go **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Time for queries execution. Also it becomes difficult to locate the Line in which there's an error **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Business analytics, segmentation, modelling ### 47. Qubole makes data easier **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Games | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The interface for Qubole is intuitive and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes searching through your history can be a bit cumbersome. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Qubole to help pull analytical data for daily problem solving. ### 48. Software Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Biotechnology | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2018 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The functionality and simplistic design, in depth colours and we'll written segments. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Don't particularly like the landing pages, sometimes we get glitches it it's freezes for a while. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Try and take your time to learn the ins and outs **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have solved many, and there isn't much we can't achieve using this software. ### 49. Qubole is decent **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The user interface is awesome. I really like using it. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The user support. Sometimes it is hard to get ahold of people. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Make sure you have good communication with team. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using spot instances ### 50. Amazing for Big Data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Utilities | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole provides me with the ability to process large sets of data **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Having to make use of clusters claims considerable startup-time **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Speed, in both up- and download and in processing ## 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=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-12+21%3A03%3A14+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=bd1c7076-4ae8-4d1b-8125-31ab533e7d9c&secure%5Btoken%5D=7b680a9d7d85a00d16a376dfe26f76c44cd1a5fe3a6acc5ee231d4de0e4920ac&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 (1,316 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 (707 reviews)