Qubole

Qubole provides a cloud-native data lake platform. It lets organisations run several data engines together on one platform for analytics and machine learning. The founding team previously built a major social network's data platform.

What Qubole offers

• Data lake platform — open, simple and secure storage and processing for structured and unstructured data.
• Machine learning — workbench and notebooks for data scientists and engineers.
• Streaming analytics — streaming data pipelines for real-time use.
• Ad-hoc analytics — queries and exploration for analysts.
• Automation — installation, configuration and maintenance of open-source engines and tools.
• Cost control — autoscaling based on workload and use of spare cloud capacity.

Who it works with

Data-driven companies. Its older profile names Lyft, Expedia, Box and Oracle as customers. Users include data scientists, engineers, analysts and administrators.

Key facts

• Cloud support: works on any major cloud, chosen at sign-up
• Approach: open engines and frameworks