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AWS Lake Formation vs Qubole

AWS Lake Formation

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Qubole

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FigureAWS Lake FormationQubole
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial—Yes
Open source——
WebYesYes
APIYesYes
Plans published43
Spec score · Data Lake Software7.8 (#6)7.2 (#11)
PurposeAWS Lake Formation helps centrally govern, secure, and share data for analytics and machine learning.Qubole describes its platform as an open, secure, multi-cloud data lake platform for machine learning, streaming analytics, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics.

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AWS Lake Formation

  • PermissionsFree
  • Governed TablesPriced on request
  • Storage APIPriced on request
  • Storage optimizerPriced on request

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Qubole

  • Free TrialFree
  • Enterprise EditionPriced on request
  • On-DemandPriced on request

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AWS Lake Formation

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Qubole

Qubole is a cloud data lake platform for data engineering, data management, streaming analysis, machine learning, data exploration, and ad-hoc analytics. It lists support for AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, alongside Apache Spark, Presto, Hive/Hadoop, TensorFlow, and Airflow. Workbench lets users author, save, template, and share reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration. The Assisted Pipeline Builder combines batch or streaming sources into streaming pipelines using fault-tolerant infrastructure. Qubole says it provisions, manages, and optimizes cloud resources, including workload-aware autoscaling and real-time spot buying. Security controls include encryption, role-based access, and integration with cloud IAM, Active Directory, and LDAP. The service states a 99.9% availability commitment, excluding scheduled and communicated maintenance. A 30-day full-featured trial is listed. Enterprise Edition is priced on request, billed per QCU per hr, and requires an annual contract; On-Demand is priced on request, billed per QCU per hr. Both exclude user fees; On-Demand lists them as $108 per user per month.

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