- Home
- Ai Data Platforms
- Qubole
Qubole
Santa Clara, California, United States
What it is
Qubole is a cloud data lake platform for data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics. It supports AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Listed frameworks include Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow. Workbench supports creating, saving, templating, and sharing reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration. Assisted Pipeline Builder combines batch or streaming sources into streaming pipelines. Qubole says it provisions, manages, and optimizes cloud resources through workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying. Security controls include encryption, role-based access, and integrations with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP. The platform states a 99.9% availability commitment excluding scheduled, communicated maintenance. A full-featured trial lasts 30 days. Enterprise Edition costs $0.17 per QCU per hr and requires an annual contract; On-Demand costs $0.24 per QCU per hr. Both exclude user fees.
For and against
For
- Supports four listed cloud providers
- Includes multiple open-source engines
- Offers pipeline-building tools
- Provides governance integrations
- Includes a 30-day trial
Against
- No free plan
- Paid plans exclude user fees
- Enterprise requires an annual contract
- Cloud service only
The verdict
Qubole brings multi-cloud data-lake workloads, analytics authoring, and pipeline construction into one platform. Its trial allows evaluation, but ongoing pricing combines QCU charges with possible user fees.
Who it suits
Qubole suits teams running multi-cloud engineering, analytics, streaming, or machine-learning workloads. It supports users who need governed access and connected query tools.
Plans and prices
Free Trial
Connect to your own data · Connect to the cloud of your choice
Read 2 Oct 2026 · qubole.com
Enterprise Edition
Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included
Read 2 Oct 2026 · qubole.com
On-Demand
Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included
Read 2 Oct 2026 · qubole.com
On the record
- Analytics
- Its Workbench supports authoring, saving, templating, and sharing reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Availability
- Qubole states a 99.9% availability commitment, excluding scheduled and communicated maintenance windows.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Clouds
- Qubole Data Service documentation lists AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as supported cloud providers.docs.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Compliance
- Qubole's trust page identifies a SOC 2 Type II report and describes third-party validation for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI in its shared responsibility model.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Data workloads
- Qubole supports data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, and ad-hoc analytics workloads.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Engines
- Qubole lists Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow among the open-source frameworks it supports.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Qubole's Spark page lists authenticated ODBC/JDBC connections for Tableau and Looker, REST API integrations including Airflow and Oozie, and data connectors including Snowflake, Redshift, Kafka, and Kinesis.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Pipeline building
- The Assisted Pipeline Builder combines streaming or batch data sources into streaming pipelines, using fault-tolerant infrastructure.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Qubole describes its platform as an open, secure, multi-cloud data lake platform for machine learning, streaming analytics, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Scaling and cost
- Qubole says it automatically provisions, manages, and optimizes cloud resources, and highlights workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Security controls
- Qubole describes encryption, role-based access controls, and integration with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP for data access governance.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Support
- The pricing page says support is included with both Enterprise Edition and On-Demand plans.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
- Usage fees
- The On-Demand price excludes user fees of $108 per user per month, while Enterprise Edition excludes user fees without stating their amount on the pricing page.qubole.com · read 2 Oct 2026
