Qubole vs SAS Advanced Analytics
Qubole
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SAS Advanced Analytics
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| Figure | Qubole | SAS Advanced Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Ai Data Platforms | 7.2 (#8) | 7.1 (#9) |
| Analytics | Its Workbench supports authoring, saving, templating, and sharing reports and queries, with optimized Presto SQL, Tableau and Looker integrations, and Git integration. | The platform supports data mining, machine learning and statistical modeling through visual and code-based interfaces. |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, United States | Cary, North Carolina, United States |
| 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. | SAS Data and AI Studio connects to services and data sources including Amazon S3, Google BigQuery, Azure Data Lake Storage, Snowflake, Oracle, MongoDB and Apache Airflow. |
| Support | The pricing page says support is included with both Enterprise Edition and On-Demand plans. | SAS lists online training, documentation, community forums and direct technical support as help options for Viya users. |
Plans
In their own words
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.
SAS Advanced Analytics
SAS Advanced Analytics has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.