Qubole is a cloud-based ^[1] Big Data as a service ^[2] developer. The company's flagship product, Qubole Data Service, manages Hadoop infrastructure and allows users to prepare, integrate, and analyze big data in the cloud. ^[-1] The company was launched in June 2012 by co-founders Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma. ^[4] It is headquartered in Mountain View, California ^[-1] and has an office in Bangalore, India. ^[5] Qubole has received $7 million in venture capital from investors including Charles River Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. ^[4] On December 11, 2014, Qubole announced they raised Series B funding of $13 million led by Norwest Ventures Partners

Qubole was founded in October 2011 ^[6] by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma.

^[4] Thusoo and Sarma were formerly senior big data engineers at Facebook, where they worked from 2007-2011. ^[4] While at Facebook, they created the social network's big data infrastructure and Apache Hive. ^[7] Thusoo also managed Facebook's internal data analytics team ^[1] and served as project lead for Hive with the Apache Software Foundation for a year. ^[4] Qubole launched in June 2012. ^[4]

The company closed its series A venture funding round in April 2013. ^[8] The round was led by Charles River Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners. ^[8] Individual angel investors included Venky Harinarayan and Anand Rajaram. ^[9] The company announced it had raised a collective $7 million between its seed and series A funding rounds. ^[8] Qubole expanded its platform to Google Compute Engine in December 2013. ^[10] It began offering Presto-as-a-service a month later. ^[11] On December 11, 2014, Qubole announced they raised Series B funding of $13 million led by Norwest Ventures Partners. On February 18, 2015, Qubole announced they now provide Spark query as a service

Qubole's flagship project is Qubole Data Service (QDS), a managed cloud-based Hadoop platform. ^[-1] QDS works with both structured and unstructured data utilizing Apache software components such as Hive, MapReduce, Oozie, Pig, Presto, Spark and Sqoop. ^{[-1] [5]} Qubole has also released a Python software development kit for building applications in Python that integrate QDS with other tools and applications. ^[12]

QDS has a user interface that allows users to analyze data sets without knowing Hadoop system management.

^[4] The platform also allows users to integrate and consolidate data from multiple sources.

^[9] It is fully elastic ^[7] and automatically scales or contracts clusters based on workload. ^{[-1] [13]}