Amazon EMR vs Qubole Data Services comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Qubole are both solutions in the Hadoop category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.5, while Qubole is ranked #12. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 12.8% mindshare in H, compared to Qubole’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution.

Amazon EMR

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Executive Summary

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon EMR

Ranking in Hadoop

3rd

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Cloud Data Warehouse (13th)

Qubole Data Services

Ranking in Hadoop

12th

Average Rating

0.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Hadoop category, the mindshare of Amazon EMR is 12.8%, down from 14.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Qubole Data Services is 1.3%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Hadoop Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Amazon EMR	12.8%
Qubole Data Services	1.3%
Other	85.9%

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Prashant Singh

Vice President -Product Management at Paytm

Seamless data integration enhances reporting efficiency and an easy setup

Amazon EMR has multiple connectors that can connect to various data sources. The service charges are based on processing only, depending on the resources used, which can help save money. It is easy to integrate with other services for storage, allowing data to be shifted to cheaper storage based on usage.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

23%

Computer Software Company

13%

Educational Organization

12%

Healthcare Company

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Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	11

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon EMR?

Amazon EMR is a good solution that can be used to manage big data.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon EMR?

Compared to others, Amazon seems efficient and is considered good for Big Data workloads. Costs are involved based on cluster resources, data volumes, EC2 ( /products/amazon-ec2-reviews ) instances...

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What needs improvement with Amazon EMR?

I have used AWS Glue with S3 for making tables and databases, but regarding Amazon EMR, I do not remember much as we are currently using it very minimally. This is my observation: In EKS, we have h...

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Also Known As

Amazon Elastic MapReduce

QDS

Overview

Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR) is a web service that makes it easy to quickly and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR simplifies big data processing, providing a managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy, fast, and cost-effective for you to distribute and process vast amounts of your data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

A self-managing and self-optimizing data platform. Constantly analyzes and learns about your big data platform’s usage through combination of heuristics and machine learning.

Provides actionable Alerts, Insights and Recommendations (AIR) to optimize reliability, performance and costs.

Automatically enacts policies through a number of Cloud Agents to eliminate the need for repetitive manual actions

Qubole

Sample Customers

Yelp

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