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Qubole vs Xplenty: What are the differences?
Qubole: 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; Xplenty: Code-free data integration, data transformation and ETL in the cloud. Read and process data from cloud storage sources such as Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files and IBM SoftLayer Object Storage. Once done processing, Xplenty allows you to connect with Amazon Redshift, SAP HANA and Google BigQuery. You can also store processed data back in your favorite relational database, cloud storage or key-value store.
Qubole and Xplenty belong to "Big Data as a Service" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Qubole are:
- Intuitive GUI
- Optimized Hive
- Improved S3 Performance
On the other hand, Xplenty provides the following key features:
- Xplenty provides you with an visual, intuitive interface to design your ETL data flows
- Xplenty lets you integrate data from a variety of data stores, such as Amazon RDS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server and MongoDB.
- Read and process data from cloud storage sources such as Amazon S3, Rackspace Cloud Files and IBM SoftLayer Object Storage
Pros of Qubole
- Simple UI and autoscaling clusters13
- Feature to use AWS Spot pricing10
- Optimized Spark, Hive, Presto, Hadoop 2, HBase clusters7
- Real-time data insights through Spark Notebook7
- Hyper elastic and scalable6
- Easy to manage costs6
- Easy to configure, deploy, and run Hadoop clusters6
- Backed by Amazon4
- Gracefully Scale up & down with zero human intervention4
- All-in-one platform2
- Backed by Azure2
Pros of Xplenty
- Simple, easy to integrate/process data without coding2