--- 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: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Cloud Data Integration url: https://www.g2.com/categories/cloud-data-integration --- # Qubole Reviews & Product Details 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. * * * Seller [Qubole](https://www.g2.com/sellers/qubole) Discussions [Qubole Community](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/discuss) Languages Supported English Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Victoria Nava Show More ## Pricing Pricing provided by Qubole. ### Free Trial 30 day free trial ### Elastic $90 /additional user [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Databricks](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Databricks") Databricks 4.6/5(1,365) ](https://www.g2.com/products/databricks/reviews) [ ![Google Cloud BigQuery](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Google Cloud BigQuery") Google Cloud BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) ](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-bigquery/reviews) [ ![Snowflake](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Snowflake") Snowflake 4.6/5(764) ](https://www.g2.com/products/snowflake/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 259 real user reviews. Implementation Time 3 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Bitanshu D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Bitanshu D.") BD Bitanshu D. Senior Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/22/2019 "Qubole - Big Data made easier" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? The best things about qubole are : 1. Scalability feature of Qubole for both EBS volume count and number of nodes 2. Auto termination of clusters to save wastage 3. Easy to switch between various languages like Hive, Spark,Presto etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? The things I dislike most are : 1. The notebook is slow to load and scroll 2. The notebook needs to be made user-friendly like its competitor Databricks Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Qubole has helped us save a lot of costs. The processing time has become faster and the wastage of resources has been minimized thanks to qubole. Its easy to set up jobs using the scheduler and the internal tables are also stored which are extremely helpful when a workflow fails in middle. Sharing resources is made easier thanks to qubole. Presto engine helped us make our Tableau dashboards lot faster! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite SD Sai Shakti D. Analytics Consultant Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/16/2019 "Extensive User of Qubole" 4/5 What do you like best about Qubole? I love the Qubole Data Service Documentation, it has helped me a lot. I also like the overall experience on Qubole platform from a usage point of view. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Sometime I struggle with installing packages (especially for R) on Qubole environment. I wish it was more simpler to use. I feel passing external spark packages on Notebooks is little tedious than compared to Analyze tab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? I work in analytics team. My daily work includes heavy usage of Spark and Hive to engineer the data. The benefit with Qubole, which I like is that it brings all the BigData ecosystem component together. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite AS ashwin s. Data Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/20/2019 "Qubole Big data processing solutions review" 4/5 What do you like best about Qubole? Cost saving and support from qubole is top notch. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? There are some bugs which we find in our production pipelines . This can be communicated in advance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Qubole: It is a great emerging big data platform , bringing all of the latest big data processing technologies under one roof and providing easy access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Auto scaling and a lot of big data processing technologies under one UI , makes it simple to try out new technologies as per our need , cost saving with qubole placement policy and autoscaling feature has helped us to control cost . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite AG Arun kumar G. Manager Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/20/2019 "Qubole make data simpler" 5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? Scheduling of query and getting the data on email is great advantage, also to write and modify queries is simple and easy. Huge data download is very possible with qubole where as not with others like snowflakes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Nothing encountered so far.... But wanted to add something like find and replace function to change date and text would help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Qubole: Highly recommended to go for it... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Huge data which are in json, can be extracted easily and reports gets generated in a minute time, where are in mysql we cannot do this. Qubole saves times a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite PN Pouria N. Manager, Analysis Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/15/2019 "A strong platform for analytics professionals to access and analyze data" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? Qubole is a very strong platform with countless opportunists to analyze and share work. UI is surely a highlight in this tool; very user-friendly and accessible. Also SSO integration was another highlight for us; there are similar software with several complexities, but not a case for Qubole. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Training materials for this software was a challenge for us; the user-community was not that strong however the Qubole team has created so much high-quality contents for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Qubole: best of luck! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Mostly cross-data sources analysis, sharing queries and workbooks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Information Technology and Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Information Technology and Services") UI Verified User in Information Technology and Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2019 "Great for managing your compute resources and giving end-users an interface" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? As an end-user, Qubole has been a magnificent interface to access the managed clusters. Having a history of queries is super helpful, and the API is basic but well thought out. Scheduler is also barebones, but works. Having a permalink to share with coworkers has been a game changer for me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Search is terrible, and since we've migrated to their new servers, the speed has been atrocious. Some of the peripheral features are quite barebones and seem like an after thought, but I'm still giving a 9 because I attribute these to just roadmap prioritization of a small company. They're on the right track and in a year or two, these concerns of mine will be non-existent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Sharing results, running queries, scaling clusters Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite RR Rohan R. Team Lead Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2019 "Excellent features but a bit unstable" 4/5 What do you like best about Qubole? The breadth of features & tools available. You have relevant set of products for a varied set of big data requirements and makes it a one stop shop for all your big data needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Stability of many new tools and features in general. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Price is the most important point for me, where qubole shines. The offerings are priced at reasonable rates. Most of our requirements functionally are supported in one platform. This is a great thing. For e.g. Presto, Airflow, Notebooks, Quest Streaming Pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 8/15/2019 "Extremely useful tool" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? I used qubole for a big data assignment and haven’t second guessed it since. Be it ML or big data analysis its my go to tool majorly because it has so many options to go about a problem and is easy to use once you familiarise yourself with the tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? I believe the Website is slightly cluttered hence making it difficult to figure out. However this was my issue only in the beginning and once i took some time to understand its a cakewalk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Qubole: Have patience and go for it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Big data analysis assignments. I’ve realised that Qubole has very educative solutions as well as an attentive customer service which makes your experience much smoother. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite CF Chad F. Machine Learning Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 8/15/2019 "Platform allows for effective data lake development, without many bells and whistles. " 3/5 What do you like best about Qubole? The API works well. We use it to submit scheduled jobs via Airflow. Notebooks are useful for development, and spark applications submitted via the API and executed in Analyze is the best way to run scheduled pipelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Customer service fails to solve problems we have; Qubole product development seems more focused on building features we won't use. Qubole has been slow to support up to date versions of hive, spark, python. Spark jobs run on Qubole but any data related challenges aren't addressed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Qubole: Consider Databricks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? We're building machine learning models that serve recommender systems for our mobile app. We also execute large ETL pipelines that serves data to the rest of the Analytics department. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Food & Beverages](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Food & Beverages") AF Verified User in Food & Beverages Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/16/2019 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "Qubole Data Service (QDS)" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Qubole? the first Autonomous Big Data Platform. The leader in big data platforms, Qubole self-manages, self-optimizes, and learns from your usage, allowing the data team to focus on business outcomes rather than on managing the platform.Very transparent culture Everyone is approachable Great customer focus Big customers Awesome product and potential Great work life balance, perks and salary Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Qubole? Usual startup pains. Company is at growth phase. Lots of things are changing/improving pretty fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Qubole solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloud-optimized to pay for only what you use Granular control of cost vs SLAs Spot Shopper Agent shops for lowest cost resources (AWS Only) 30%-50% lower cost than other Cloud solutions and up to 80% lower TCO than on-premise deployments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 8/20/2019 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Qubole? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Qubole ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/discussions/new) GU Guest User What is Qubole used for? 0 Upvotes 0 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-qubole-used-for) ![Lalit C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lalit C.") LC Lalit Chawathe • Last activity almost 6 years ago How to get logs from Qubole if I run traditional jar instead of Python 1 Upvote 1 [ Join the conversation ](https://www.g2.com/discussions/32355-how-to-get-logs-from-qubole-if-i-run-traditional-jar-instead-of-python) [ View all Discussions ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/discuss) ## Pricing Options Pricing provided by Qubole. ### Free Trial 30 day free trial ### Elastic $90 /additional user ### Enterprise Call Vendor for Pricing [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/pricing) Qubole Comparisons ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_a6c205d533dba77b318af96d91beb2ac/databricks.jpeg "Product Avatar Image") Databricks 4.6/5(1,365) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/databricks-vs-qubole) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_b3390b4cc3d92e87d570895f7358c003/amazon-emr.jpg "Product Avatar Image") Amazon EMR 4.2/5(70) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/amazon-emr-vs-qubole) ![Product Avatar Image](https://images.g2crowd.com/uploads/product/image/small_square/small_square_96b275379465d759df5bffd0099d849a/google-cloud-bigquery.png "Product Avatar Image") BigQuery 4.5/5(1,224) [ Compare Now ](https://www.g2.com/compare/google-cloud-bigquery-vs-qubole) ##### ##### Qubole Features Database Data Distribution Data Lake Integrations Hadoop Integration Spark Integration Platform Data Preparation Spark Integration Processing Cloud Processing Workload Processing [ View More Features ](https://www.g2.com/products/qubole/features) ##### Categories on G2 [Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-science-and-machine-learning-platforms)[Big Data Integration Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-integration-platforms)[Big Data Processing and Distribution](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-processing-and-distribution) [Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/data-science-and-machine-learning-platforms)[Big Data Integration Platforms](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-integration-platforms)[Big Data Processing and Distribution](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-processing-and-distribution)[Big Data Analytics](https://www.g2.com/categories/big-data-analytics) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);) ##### Explore More [What K-12 SIS platforms offer the most flexible compliance and state reporting capabilities for private and independent schools?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-k-12-sis-platforms-offer-the-most-flexible-compliance-and-state-reporting-capabilities-for-private-and-independent-schools)[Which solution supports AI-powered machine translation with human review?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-solution-supports-ai-powered-machine-translation-with-human-review)[Top machine learning platforms for mobile app developers](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-are-the-top-machine-learning-platforms-for-mobile-app-developers) [ENPS vs Kordiam: which newsroom management system is better for communications directors managing editorial workflows?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/enps-vs-kordiam-which-newsroom-management-system-is-better-for-communications-directors-managing-editorial-workflows)[What platform integrates video conferencing with productivity tools?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-platform-integrates-video-conferencing-with-productivity-tools)[Which AP software integrates best with ERP systems?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-ap-software-integrates-best-with-erp-systems) [Show MoreShow Less](javascript:void(0);)