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Altiscale vs Qubole: What are the differences?

Developers describe Altiscale as "Hadoop as a Service". we run Apache Hadoop for you. We not only deploy Hadoop, we monitor, manage, fix, and update it for you. Then we take it a step further: We monitor your jobs, notify you when something’s wrong with them, and can help with tuning. On the other hand, Qubole is detailed as "Prepare, integrate and explore Big Data in the cloud (Hive, MapReduce, Pig, Presto, Spark and Sqoop)". Qubole is a cloud based service that makes big data easy for analysts and data engineers.

Altiscale and Qubole can be primarily classified as "Big Data as a Service" tools.

Some of the features offered by Altiscale are:

  • Hadoop Dialtone
  • “Infinite” Hadoop
  • A Proactive Hadoop Helpdesk

On the other hand, Qubole provides the following key features:

  • Intuitive GUI
  • Optimized Hive
  • Improved S3 Performance

"Our data sci & analysts would scream if went back toEMR" is the primary reason why developers consider Altiscale over the competitors, whereas "Simple UI and autoscaling clusters" was stated as the key factor in picking Qubole.

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Pros of Altiscale
Pros of Qubole
  • 3
    An ops team comes with it, so you're free to analyze
  • 3
    SOC2, PCI, HIPAA, Kerberos
  • 3
    The easiest, lowest cost, highest performing option
  • 3
    Hadoop ops experts run it all for you, don't need ops
  • 3
    Our data sci & analysts would scream if went back toEMR
  • 3
    Automated compute bursting
  • 3
    Super elastic, scalable, secure
  • 2
    Optimized cloud gives faster results, better completion
  • 2
    Simple, easy to use UI - Data Navigator is great
  • 2
    Easier pricing. No node worries. No surprise bills
  • 1
    Real domain experts running hadoop@scale, great service
  • 13
    Simple UI and autoscaling clusters
  • 10
    Feature to use AWS Spot pricing
  • 7
    Optimized Spark, Hive, Presto, Hadoop 2, HBase clusters
  • 7
    Real-time data insights through Spark Notebook
  • 6
    Hyper elastic and scalable
  • 6
    Easy to manage costs
  • 6
    Easy to configure, deploy, and run Hadoop clusters
  • 4
    Backed by Amazon
  • 4
    Gracefully Scale up & down with zero human intervention
  • 2
    All-in-one platform
  • 2
    Backed by Azure

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What is Altiscale?

we run Apache Hadoop for you. We not only deploy Hadoop, we monitor, manage, fix, and update it for you. Then we take it a step further: We monitor your jobs, notify you when something’s wrong with them, and can help with tuning.

What is Qubole?

Qubole is a cloud based service that makes big data easy for analysts and data engineers.

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    What are some alternatives to Altiscale and Qubole?
    Google BigQuery
    Run super-fast, SQL-like queries against terabytes of data in seconds, using the processing power of Google's infrastructure. Load data with ease. Bulk load your data using Google Cloud Storage or stream it in. Easy access. Access BigQuery by using a browser tool, a command-line tool, or by making calls to the BigQuery REST API with client libraries such as Java, PHP or Python.
    Amazon Redshift
    It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
    Snowflake
    Snowflake eliminates the administration and management demands of traditional data warehouses and big data platforms. Snowflake is a true data warehouse as a service running on Amazon Web Services (AWS)—no infrastructure to manage and no knobs to turn.
    Amazon EMR
    It is used in a variety of applications, including log analysis, data warehousing, machine learning, financial analysis, scientific simulation, and bioinformatics.
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