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.

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38.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyDataData LakeBig DataAnalyticsSparkPrestoHiveAirflowMachine LearningCloudData Engineering

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 38.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 14.8 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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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...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

qubole-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

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

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs
 CLI
CLI

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance
 Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 StatusPage
StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
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
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
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  - 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
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- type: Compliance
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- type: Website
  url: https://www.qubole.com/
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- type: Documentation
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  url: https://docs.qubole.com/en/latest/quick-start-guide/index.html
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.qubole.com/blog
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  url: https://www.qubole.com/qubole-pricing
- type: SignUp
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- 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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/qubole-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/qubole-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/qubole-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
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  artifacts_added: 12
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