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Qubole Reviews & Product Details

Pricing

Pricing provided by Qubole.

Free Trial

30 day free trial

Elastic

$90
/additional user

User Insights

Average based on 259 real user reviews.

Implementation Time

3 months

Perceived Cost

$$$$$
Muhammad D.
MD
Muhammad D.
ELP
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Great and easy to implement tool to manage big data"
5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Parth C.
PC
Parth C.
Data Scientist
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Qubole is an amazing data lake platform for analytics"
5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Qubole has degraded in quality very poorly"
0.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Verified User in Market Research
CM
Verified User in Market Research
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Qubole review"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

FP
Ferdinand P.
Operations Lead
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Great tool to manage Big Data."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

MD
Mert D.
Senior Project Manager
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to implement and use tool."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Verified User in Retail
UR
Verified User in Retail
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Machine Learning Engineer"
1/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Verified User in Food & Beverages
UF
Verified User in Food & Beverages
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"One tool which serves all purposes from ETL to Data analysis to data science."
4.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

Overall, the tool is good and so intuitive. And the best part is when you are stuck somewhere, there is a support team that always exceeds expectations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Qubole?

Qubole should increase speed on the DL side and update Spark faster to retain customers. They do not have a data catalog option where we can have lineage, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Quick big data analytics on Spark (PySpark) on Qubole Data Service"
3.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

Verified User in Program Development
UP
Verified User in Program Development
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Data Lakes simplified"
4.5/5
What do you like best about Qubole?

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

What do you dislike about Qubole?

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

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Lalit C.
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How to get logs from Qubole if I run traditional jar instead of Python

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