--- 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. Convenient but quirky **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ahmad Z. | Business Intelligence Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I do not have to worry about any installation or set up process. I just select the config I need and I can start working on spark or presto. There are some configurations that must be done (connection to S3, keys, iAM roles and so on), however, they pale in comparison to running an installation from scratch. Scaling out or scaling up is also made simple by just choosing a few things from the cluster config options. Built in solutions like Scheduler help with scheduling and automating a few jobs, and when things get too large, you can use airflow on Qubole. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes there are things that work on Zeppelin or the underlying technology in general, but due to some issues with Qubole value added product, these things fail (example is connection between spark & redshift). When these things are highlighted to the support team, they get addressed, but the resolution time varies. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It is very convenient, but it has some issues. The support team is quite active and they address measure problems immediately (if problems were not fixed, the root cause analysis is provided along with a fix estimation) **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Running queries on hive data meta stores with data stored in S3 using Presto Running data aggregation jobs on data stored in S3 using spark Running queries that join S3 data with redshift data on presto Adhoc queries using Spark that search through S3 files to answer business questions ### 2. Great tool to query big data in S3 **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - Simplicity of queries, - Similarity to SQL makes learning curve faster. - Ability to download results in csv format. - Qubole keeps history of ran queried for long period of time which helped me a lot in finding previous queries and saved time for writing new queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** - Slower when comparing to competitor like Athena. - If the result set is higher then results are stored in S3 with partitioned files. This makes difficult to combine all result and view it together. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** - I can advocate to use qubole for other companies who are looking to query data in S3, Azure or other cloud storage technologies in efficient and timely manner. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - We are medium scale company dealing petabytes of data and We really need to query this data for reporting, analytics and for machine learning purposes. - As we are working in AWS technology we store all the data in S3, we wanted a tool which can query data present in S3. - Qubole lets us solve this problem exactly by storing data in S3 in partitioned format and then query it efficiently. - Qubole makes it easy to analyze the big data using simple sql like queries. - Qubole also gives an option of selecting clusters according to price and time need. which provides options considering needs. - Qubole is also cost efficient in terms of running bid queries and cost associated with it. By allowing to store data in partitioned format saved us a lot of time and money. - I can advocate to use qubole for other companies who are looking to query data in S3, Azure or other cloud storage technologies in efficient and timely manner. ### 3. Big data in minutes, not hours or days **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?** Not having to manage and worry about infrastructure, even in cloud, is huge deal. As a data engineer it’s great just run your workloads or queries using engine of your choice without worrying about complex setup. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Initial versions of programmatic SDKs were not very intuitive. Ran into couple of issues with metadata limitations but they were quickly resolved by support. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** At Adobe AdCloud, we used qubole for joining huge tv viewership datasets with bidder logs to produce meaningful insights as well as feed data into our machine learning models. ### 4. Good product easy to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay B. | Technical Consultant, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the analyse interface where we can run the query in multiple languages. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It would be good if Qubole provides an way to upload the external jar to user and load them. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using this to analyze the customer's data and measureing the quality of data for customer. ### 5. Extremely developer friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Its developer friendly. Its easy to write and test code in the notebook. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** qubole slowness sometimes causes application to break. we get pagerduties and need to restart baston node. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Much faster aws access and very easy to learn.More convenient to test adhoc and do manual runs. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** writing big data applications ### 6. Qubole puts our data at the fingertips of all colleagues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 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?** With Qubole, our non-engineering colleagues are no longer required to talk to engineers in order to get immediate insights out of our data lake. This saves time for both sides, such that everyone can focus on what they do best. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I think Qubole's UI could be a little friendlier when it comes to displaying query execution progress. It's easy for me to parse as an engineer, but some non-technical colleagues find it difficult to determine if a query is on track to complete or not. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Be sure to have clear guidance regarding creation of tables. It's too easy to end up with a big pile of tables that lack consistent ownership. This leads to confusion on the part of users, as well as operators who cannot tell which tables are safe to delete, or when maintenance can be performed on underlying data. In addition, keeping this information in a centralized location provides more opportunities for tighter access control at the underlying store level. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most important one is the ability of product managers to quickly gain insights into patterns hidden in the data in order to deliver a more impactful product to our customers. This results in less rework by engineers later on. Everybody wins! ### 7. Easy-to-Use Querying Software **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the simplicity of the Analyze interface as well as the built-in scheduling capabilities. The functionality to search through old queries, both saved and unsaved, is powerful and intuitive. Additionally, I like the ability to easily manage multiple clusters for managing workloads of varying size. Moreover, the available cluster UI makes it simpler to investigate failed queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I'd like to be able to set default values for schema so that I don't need to specify schema every time if I am predominantly referencing just one schema. I also find the log process updates annoying. While it is helpful to see specific log details, I get annoyed scrolling through a list of % completes. I feel that a status bar would better use the screen real estate and make it a bit simpler to read through the logs. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are trying to make large, log-level data sources available to cross-functional teams to run both automated and ad hoc analytics to meet their varied needs. ### 8. Quick to start with bigdata using Qubole **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Autoscaling and way Qubole uses AWS spot instances minimizes compute cost for customers. Our team has experienced close to 30% reduction in cost compared to previous cluster without Qubole. Amount of time it tales to on board new process onto Qubole is very less, and we can have many clusters each designed for its own purpose. Qubole also supports notebooks backed by spark clusters, which is very handy for quickly iterating on ideas for developers. Qubole support is really good, they respond to tickets in timely manner and we always have someone helping us out via slack/emails on time critical projects.. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Qubole sometimes has lot of bugs and lot of their features are not well documented. You have to engage support to get those things figured out. Personally Im not very much impressed with UI and interface of qubole query editor, most of times it doesn't show results in well formatted manner. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You will save money if you are currently using public cloud like AWS. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ablility to query big data sets for adhoc analysis, generate reports, data processing to generated ML models. We use presto clusters for near realtime queries which mostly support our backend, performance of these clusters is really amazing. ### 9. Easy to use **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?** How easy it is to create and/or modify dashboards, how easy it is to share the results of those dashboards out **What do you dislike about Qubole?** It occasionally hangs in ways that I cannot entirely understand **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're using Qubole to track our OKR progress - it's nice to have a week by week visibility ### 10. 2 years back it was serving our needs ..now the platform has to catchup for productivity. **Rating:** 1.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 21, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** the Support system Spark ,Airflow deployments Team that works with us on cutomer support **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Lack of innovation on ML AI Lack of serverless deployments The technology is 2 years outdated and not growing Need solution experts to help partner soultions in qubole systems **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** please improve ml and ai offering Dont just say spark can do it.. have more blogs technical sessions on how to do it. learn from products like sagemaker ,cloudml and others on how to solve ml ai piece for organization build automatic suites for anomaly detection unsupervised learning etc. share code and engineering experitse through blog and explain how to leverage the qubole product. Make serverless implementation like presto glue . .. build deeplearning applications for clients and share the experience with others functionally and technically have redis for storing hot data **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling. Big data workloads with spark. Used presto for some time but now there are seveless options from Amzon which has replaced all of our spark workloads ### 11. Not an intuitive tool to use **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** We can run more detailed reports not available on T1 **What do you dislike about Qubole?** We need T1 team to help us run queries because traders are not use to this process. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** You will need a formation for using Qubole. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** If we need more datas not available on T1, we can use Qubole. ### 12. I like qubole as this is easy to run queries, but it is a bit complex to use and find best use cases **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stanislav M. | Technical Platform Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I really like that tables are easily achievable and i can fast switch between different tables and see the content. Also I can see what should be queried mandatory. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I don't like that I can open a table content only once being on the same page. Sometimes I can close the table content, but then I need to open it again, and I can't do that before refreshing the whole page **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Would be amazing to have this product more easy to use and improve the errors description. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using cubole to have an access to huge set of data we are operating and can't put everything in our UI. ### 13. Never going wrong with Qubole **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Insurance | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Drive interactive, ad hoc, and scheduled workloads through the processing engine of your choice with an easy-to-use SQL query wizard **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I don't have any concern using Qubole. Using it as been an humbling experience **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Offline capabilities let you inspect queries and notebooks without running a cluster. ### 14. My Qubole Experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** - I like the ability to quickly change between a variety of languages to manipulate data - The scheduler's ability to use a workflow and switch between languages in the same process - The history features are extremely useful. I especially like that I can see historical results in addition to my old queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** - When running a query, the lack of a status bar is really annoying. Especially as the logs tend to grow indefinitely - It is difficult to have Qubole connect to Tableau effectively. The connection is slow and often fails. This has improved with more recent updates. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** - We use Qubole to analyze programmatic media spend and identify potentially useful insights for programmatic traders. - The results of our data sets are stored and updated using the Qubole scheduler. We then use these data source to power Tableau visualizations. ### 15. Qubole Automation **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 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?** The best part is being able to schedule queries easily and get an email notification for completion or failure. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I dislike all the different parameters required to make the queries run more efficiently. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to run queries for business purposes on a routine basis. ### 16. Experience with Qubole **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?** Ability to run multiple type workloads like Hive, Spark, Presto etc, notebook & scheduler support from Qubole **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Latest UI seems slower compared to previous UI Newer instance types take time to be supported by Qubole, typically with the next release **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Manage cloud workloads with Qubole ### 17. Fast way to kick off your project **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luke S. | Technical Lead (Consultant) | Department for International Trade (DIT), Hospital & Health Care, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Easy and fast setup. No issues connected with administration. Auto scaling. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I haven't got enough exposure yet to answer **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** allowing your data team to focus on business outcomes rather than on managing the platform, reduce the time to get machine learning into production. ### 18. Working at Mapbox **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 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?** Qubole helps me with my spark jobs, it is easy to see the costs. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The UI is a bit intimidating. There is no clear way of accessing my company’s shared stacks. I wish SAML was turned on, as I am still in process of getting access to company’s Qubole. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It’s best to get acess to your company’s account before ending up with a trial. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using Qubole to help us bill customers with an ETL pipeline. ### 19. Good idea, rough implementation **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Entertainment | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I'm a huge fan of the fact that you can mix data, work on multiple interpreters, and have S3 combined. There's been a huge issue with these things for most platforms. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There's a huge issue of stability. There are multiple down cycles and larger issues of lag in the UI. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Give it a shot, there's gonna be a huge wave of users if stability and lag issues are addressed **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working on complex topic modeling, basically for ML ### 20. Pretty Awesome! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Its a great way to get lists and find information if you have a huge database **What do you dislike about Qubole?** A little hard to understand, and not too much in terms of tutorial **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** No problems, just a great way to realize your lists ### 21. Self scalable infrastructure **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** SomaSundaran A. | Data Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Auto-scaling and continuous health checkup **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Versioning problems in spark clusters caused multiple restarts costing much more for re-running the same workload **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use Qubole for running our ML models which needs auto-scaling depending on the variable load ### 22. Our data lake have manage by Qubole. Head of Data **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Birendra S. | Head of Data Engineering , Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Support looks good. Like the way Qubole up and down scale the clusters **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Unable to Manage few things like HiveServer2. Unable to support Flink. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our complete Data lake have manage by Qubole including Spark, Hive and Pesto ### 23. Highly recommended! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Notebook-like design, interactive environment, ability to handle big data, multi-language support **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes it is very slow to run a spark job. And the default plotting function is not intuitive. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We write big data ML models using Qubole. ### 24. Great Service **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?** The UI and support team is very helpful. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There are few bugs that occasionally occur. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** highly recommended **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving users access to clusters and helping them do their job. It's easy to manage and debug any issues ### 25. Good Tool for Big Data Processing **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** * You can use Spark in your Notebooks * The solution is fast * Good for its cost **What do you dislike about Qubole?** User interface is not very intuitive. I would prefer writing code on my local machine and update notebooks via the same repo in VCS, but this is not supported. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our Qubole job process a batch of csv files (~ 350m records daily) and exporting the result to parquet files. Processing takes about 30min. ### 26. I stand neutral for Qubole **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It has the best integration with other cloud service providers, And it has best big data infra. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The support takes a much longer turn around time. The notebooks dont have version control for any code base. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Big data stack is build with Qubole. we have benefited by having good querying platform for all the users, and Great orchestration with airflow and qubole integrated with notebooks. Good Development environment for the developers ### 27. Good interface for Analytical Queries **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 19, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** A unified data source for understanding all dimensions in organization **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Table search doesn't work well across databases and column completion is laggy. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps in generating data for analysis and quick slice-and-dice. ### 28. Great data query tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Akshay J. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It is a good tool to query data from s3. Its is easy to use. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** its little slower as compared to athena. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** try out POC with Athena. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We query petabytes of data from S3. The queries are complex and fetch heavy data from s3 buckets. qubole provides a good tool to achieve this. ### 29. Quick access of dat **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It supports many languages such as pyspark, sql **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Visualization in qubole is little clumsy **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I analyze problems related to ELD and best part of qubole is its versatile support of technology stack. ### 30. Using Qubole has been a good, but slightly hard to use experience **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like that Qubole exists on web. It makes sharing queries easy. It's also helpful to have access to other users' queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I found discoverability difficult when first using Qubole. It's impossible to search among all of the schemas. It's also not possible to save drafts of queries or switch back and forth between two queries quickly. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Qubole makes it possible for many people to access the data they care about within the company. It's made setup for casual users much easier as they don't need to install/configure desktop software. ### 31. Flexible but hard to debug **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Ability to execute queries against various databases (Hive, Presto, Spark, etc) **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Error messages are often opaque and do not help with debugging. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I generally used it to test ETL code. ### 32. Client success Manager **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 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?** easy to interpret data, digestible, good display **What do you dislike about Qubole?** slow load times, crashes, bugs, sometimes modules collapse and i cannot get them back **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** pulling data from mobile marketing campaign and advertising products ### 33. Ease of Use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Food & Beverages | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The product was designed keeping a long term use and is at level of Amazon and Google. The customer support was also good. New feature request were accepted and rolled out. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** new feature roll out is slow sometimes and difficult to debug the issue. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use EMR managed by Qubole. The feature set was good and the sales team and support was easy to reach out to. ### 34. Very nice tool to mange EMR clusters and User Interface **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Stephen R. | SDET - System Implementer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Qubole allows more users access to the Data using sql like interface. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I do not really like the autoscaling of the clusters behind the UI. The new cluster UI is taking me a moment to use. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have very large amounts of data that were not really accessible by the data analyst. ### 35. Qubole is great to use with AWS except.. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** i like the interface, unlike AWS. some of the users within my team are not technical so Qubole make it easy to use for some user **What do you dislike about Qubole?** i am having hard time when dealing with file permission within the qubole environment. i understand i can set S3 permission in aws but not within qubole environment among the qubole users **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** customer support has a lot of room to grow and documentation can be improved **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** we solved a lot of different thing, using jupyter workbook and explore tab for various task ### 36. Great for extracting data **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?** Interface is user friendly. Fast and works well. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Would be better if errors within the query showed up before running. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly discrepancy cases between two databases. ### 37. Managed clusters, storage (S3), data, tables and notebooks at one place, but unstable. **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Media Production | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** 1. Manage clusters means I don't need to worry too much about them. 2. I can easily access and save my data in S3 3. Accessing data in Hive tables from my notebook is quick and easy 4. Qubole representatives are quick to respond to our trouble tickets **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Unstable clusters - we have at least a couple of problems with the clusters once a month **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Customer analytics with big data. Processing big data for my projects is seamless and fast with Spark and Hive tables. ### 38. great product for data extraction **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The upside of the qubole is that we are able to pull raw reports from the data lake which allows having a detailed insight about the campaign's performance. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The amount of time it takes to run a query is the only issue. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** It would be a great help if the report finishes quicker than 1 hour **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Detailed reporting allows optimising our campaigns efficiently ### 39. Technical abstraction allowing focus on business use cases **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Srikanth M. | Sr. Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Technical abstraction allowing focus on business use cases **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Product to be more focussed on Business users and TPM **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** focus more on TPM's **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** ecommerce platform sclability ### 40. Good handy product **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Siddhartha P. | Operations Research Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Notebook option and the analyse option in this **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Every ran query is present.. difficult to find the usefully one **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple data pulling from clusters ### 41. Gets job done **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Has a good interface that allows for easy querying. The scheduling and table view/explore work well for easy access and seeing column/tables/types **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The load time sometime takes a while. Also wish there was a loadbar instead of a long list up updated percaentages when querying **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Great interface allows for easier time going between tables and running queries. Makes things more efficient ### 42. Big data **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek K. | Mr., Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Doing analytics over big data is the one which I believe qubole is good at **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Unnecessary citations during presentation **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's still under testing ### 43. Works Good and Smooth **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 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 is very friendly as compared to other platform and eases the overall process. It's UI is absolutely good **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Sometimes it takes too much time to extract the data. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it to pull day to day data for my analytics and it has lessen my work load by giving me simple and user friendly platform. ### 44. Qubole makes my life easier **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** I like the features within the Qubole program such as templates and the sheduler. I use the templates regularly which makes it very easy to use when i need to regulalry run specific queries. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** I dont know if this could be a bit optimistic or whether it is possible - but maybe there could be more help with troubleshooting queries. Also, query run times can vary. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Working in analysis, Qubole has enabled me to be able to analyse our clients website more granularly. For example we have been able to segment out their website using qubole queries to create our custom pixels and analyse specificly on these segments. This can provide more in depth analysis which the client is always looking for. ### 45. Good Cloud Big Data Processing and Machine Learning enabling platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** The intuitive-ness and usability of the Qubole platform. Its extensive connectivity with wider Big Data and Cloud applications. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** There are not many things to dislike, especially when in comparison with Quibble's competitors like Databricks. The Quoble Cloud platform offers extensive scalability towards building your Cloud and Big Data Applications. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have built Big Data Analytics and BI solutions ### 46. Overall pretty smooth experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Transportation/Trucking/Railroad | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** 1) every extensive set of functions and tools 2) Easy to setup and use 3) Spend is reasonable **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Updating dependencies is a pain. Setup permission across different AWS account is a blocking issue of productivity. **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** take it if you want less hassle on using spark or other big data tools. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** spark-related development hive table creation and manipulation ### 47. Very efficient tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** It is very user-friendly and solves the problem very fast. It is very responsive. It can have multiple queries running on it altogether. **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The user interface could have been better. **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very user-friendly. I have written multiple queries in Qubole which were very complex and they ran on it very quickly. Hive is amazing on Qubole. ### 48. Qubole as a data lake **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Integrated environment to access Hive queries, notebooks and presto in single view, instead of installing multiple tools to access the data in the environment. Ability to integrate with Github and promote from lower to higher environment **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Ability to multi-task/parallelize note book runs without taking the hit on spin up time to create a session per request **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** We were using Qubole as a data lake to bring all of the firms data into one place to support different use cases ### 49. Excellent and user friendly **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Online Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Accessing multiple big data technologies **What do you dislike about Qubole?** The Error Message are not clear and at times misleading **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Developing Big data solutions ### 50. Very intuitive platform, great support and robust api **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shlomi U. | Data scientist , Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Qubole?** Auto scale of clusters, support engineers are specialized in big data **What do you dislike about Qubole?** Notebooks can't be addited offline, can't run single node process **Recommendations to others considering Qubole:** Make sure the support engineers can assist your needs **What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data analysis and filtering on terabytes of data. 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