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Qubole

Qubole is a cloud-native data lake platform (now part of Idera) that lets teams run multiple open-source data-processing engines - Apache Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, and Airflow - together in a single, cost-optimized, self-managing environment across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Qubole Data Service (QDS) automates cluster provisioning, autoscaling, and spot/preemptible instance management to reduce data-lake costs, and exposes a comprehensive REST API for submitting Hive/Presto/Spark/Hadoop commands, managing clusters, scheduling jobs, running notebooks and dashboards, and administering accounts, users, groups, and roles. First-party SDKs (Python qds-sdk, Java, and Ruby), the qds.py command-line tool, and the afctl Airflow CLI wrap the API. This profile was surfaced as a VC-portfolio lead and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline against Qubole's live public documentation and package registries.

Qubole publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Data, Data Lake, Big Data, and Analytics.

Qubole’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, support, and 20 more developer resources.

36.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
CompanyDataData LakeBig DataAnalyticsSparkPrestoHiveAirflowMachine-LearningCloudData Engineering

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Qubole Data Service REST API

The Qubole Data Service (QDS) REST API for submitting and managing data commands (Hive, Presto, Spark, Hadoop, Pig, shell, DB import/export, notebook), managing compute clusters...

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Qubole Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Qubole Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Qubole Trust Center

SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: qubole
name: Qubole
description: Qubole is a cloud-native data lake platform (now part of Idera) that lets teams run multiple open-source data-processing
  engines - Apache Spark, Presto, Hive, Hadoop, and Airflow - together in a single, cost-optimized, self-managing environment
  across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. The Qubole Data Service (QDS) automates
  cluster provisioning, autoscaling, and spot/preemptible instance management to reduce data-lake costs, and exposes a comprehensive
  REST API for submitting Hive/Presto/Spark/Hadoop commands, managing clusters, scheduling jobs, running notebooks and dashboards,
  and administering accounts, users, groups, and roles. First-party SDKs (Python qds-sdk, Java, and Ruby), the qds.py command-line
  tool, and the afctl Airflow CLI wrap the API. This profile was surfaced as a VC-portfolio lead and enriched by the API Evangelist
  pipeline against Qubole's live public documentation and package registries.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/qubole/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.qubole.com/wp-content/themes/qubole/assets/images/logo.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- crv
- lightspeed-venture-partners
- norwest-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Data
- Data Lake
- Big Data
- Analytics
- Spark
- Presto
- Hive
- Airflow
- Machine-Learning
- Cloud
- Data Engineering
tags_raw:
- Company
- Data
- Data Lake
- Big Data
- Analytics
- Spark
- Presto
- Hive
- Airflow
- Machine Learning
- Cloud
- Data Engineering
apis:
- name: Qubole Data Service REST API
  description: The Qubole Data Service (QDS) REST API for submitting and managing data commands (Hive, Presto, Spark, Hadoop,
    Pig, shell, DB import/export, notebook), managing compute clusters, scheduling recurring jobs, running notebooks and dashboards,
    and administering accounts, users, groups, and roles. Authenticated with a per-user Qubole API token sent in the X-AUTH-TOKEN
    header; versioned by URI path (v1.2, v1.3, v2).
  humanURL: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/rest-api/index.html
  baseURL: https://api.qubole.com/api/v1.2/
  tags:
  - Data
  - Big Data
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/rest-api/index.html
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/qubole-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/qubole-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/qubole-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/qubole-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/qubole-conformance.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/qubole-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.qubole.com/products/trust
- type: Website
  url: https://www.qubole.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/rest-api/index.html
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/quick-start-guide/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.qubole.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.qubole.com/qubole-pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://us.qubole.com/users/sign_in
- type: Support
  url: https://www.qubole.com/company/contact-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://us.qubole.com/TOS.html
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.qubole.com/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/qubole
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.qubole.com/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/qubole-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/qubole-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/qubole-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/qubole-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/qubole-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/qubole-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/qubole-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/qubole-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/qubole-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/qubole-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/qubole-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qubole-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v1

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