# Qubole

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/qubole/  
**Website:** https://www.qubole.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 36.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 71.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 8.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **Qubole MCP Server**

## Security (3)

- **Qubole Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Qubole Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Qubole Trust Center** — SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR

## Tags

Company, Data, Data Lake, Big Data, Analytics, Spark, Presto, Hive, Airflow, Machine-Learning, Cloud, Data Engineering

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/qubole/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.