Qubole

6.7easy start · #6 of 17
in Data Lake Software

Free to practise onnot on record
Free trialyes
Well documentedyes
Runs where you worknot on record

Runs on api, Web.

Qubole is ranked #6 of 17 in data lake software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

Qubole plans and pricing

All plans

Free Trial Free Full-featured trial for 30 days Connect to your own data · Connect to the cloud of your choice qubole.com · 2 Oct 2026

Enterprise Edition $0.17 per QCU per hr; requires annual contract; excludes user fees Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included qubole.com · 2 Oct 2026

On-Demand $0.24 per QCU per hr; excludes user fees of $108/user per month Workload aware autoscaling and spot management · Qubole Cost Explorer · Adaptive Serverless Architecture · Support included qubole.com · 2 Oct 2026

Compared on data lake software

Free plan: No
Deployment model: cloud
Ingestion modes: both
Metadata catalog: Yes
Governance controls: Yes
Query interface: both
Open table formats: No
Data sharing: Yes

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The record

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.
Data workloads: Qubole supports data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, and ad-hoc analytics workloads.
Analytics: Its Workbench supports authoring, saving, templating, and sharing reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration.
Pipeline building: The Assisted Pipeline Builder combines streaming or batch data sources into streaming pipelines, using fault-tolerant infrastructure.
Engines: Qubole lists Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow among the open-source frameworks it supports.
Clouds: Qubole Data Service documentation lists AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure as supported cloud providers.
Scaling and cost: Qubole says it automatically provisions, manages, and optimizes cloud resources, and highlights workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying.
Security controls: Qubole describes encryption, role-based access controls, and integration with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP for data access governance.
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.
Availability: Qubole states a 99.9% availability commitment, excluding scheduled and communicated maintenance windows.
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.
Support: The pricing page says support is included with both Enterprise Edition and On-Demand plans.
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.
Headquarters: Santa Clara, California, United States

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best Data Lake Software in 2026#6 of 17

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Sources

qubole.com/platform· checked 2 Oct 2026
docs.qubole.com/en/latest/rest-api/qubole-endpoints.htm· checked 2 Oct 2026
qubole.com/products/trust· checked 2 Oct 2026
qubole.com/developers/apache-spark-on-qubole· checked 2 Oct 2026
qubole.com/qubole-pricing· checked 2 Oct 2026