Cloudera Data Lake Service vs Qubole

Cloudera Data Lake Service provides data governance, metadata management, access controls, and auditing for data lake workloads. It captures schema and metadata definitions that platform workloads discover or create, then supports search, lineage, chain-of-custody auditing, classification, profiling, and a business glossary. Security capabilities include role- and attribute-based policies, auditing of unauthorized access, and encryption at rest and in motion with key management. Apache Ranger can apply access policies at database, table, column, and file levels, including dynamic conditions such as time or geolocation. Apache Knox provides a protected single sign-on gateway to Data Lake and Cloudera Data Platform interfaces. A cluster includes Hive Metastore, Ranger, Atlas, and Knox. Cloudera supports light-duty and enterprise Data Lakes on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Listed capabilities also include SQL analytics, streaming ingestion, data sharing, and open table formats. The service has web and API access and supports hybrid deployment. The listed pricing note starts at $0.20, while the plan is also described as Contact Sales for pricing; cloud prices exclude infrastructure and networking costs.

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.