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    InterSystems IRIS

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform that includes a multi-model transactional data management engine, an application development platform, and interoperability engine, and an open analytics platform. It is is the next generation of InterSystems' data management software. It includes…N/A

    Qubole

    Score5 out of 10
    N/AQubole is a NoSQL database offering from the California-based company of the same name.N/A
    Pricing
    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Editions & Modules
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    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Considered Both Products
    InterSystems
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    Qubole
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    45 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    44 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    32 Answers
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    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
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    Features
    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Relational Databases
    Comparison of Relational Databases features of InterSystems IRIS and Qubole
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Qubole
    -
    Ratings
    ACID compliance10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database locking8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Encryption10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Disaster recovery10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Flexible deployment7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple datatypes8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    NoSQL Databases
    Comparison of NoSQL Databases features of InterSystems IRIS and Qubole
    Feature
    InterSystems IRIS
    -
    Ratings
    Qubole
    8.3
    1 Ratings
    3% below category average
    Performance00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Availability00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
    Concurrency00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Security00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Scalability00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Data model flexibility00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Deployment model flexibility00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
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    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Small Businesses
    Amazon RDS
    Score8.1 out of 10
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    SingleStore
    Score8.2 out of 10
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    SAP IQ
    Score5.3 out of 10
    IBM Cloudant
    Score7.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
    (45 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    6.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.4
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    InterSystems IRISQubole
    Likelihood to Recommend
    InterSystems
    Intersystems IRIS is a really great tool for Interoperability. It has so many capabilities out of the box and then such a great developer community on top of that, that there are really no limits to what you can do in terms of data manipulation and translation. Personally I find it to be a great tool if you are looking for Interoperability software.
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    Qubole
    I find Qubole is well suited for getting started analyzing data in the cloud without being locked in to a specific cloud vendor's tooling other than the underlying filesystem. Since the data itself is not isolated to any Qubole cluster, it can be easily be collected back into a cloud-vendor's specific tools for further analysis, therefore I find it complementary to any offerings such as Amazon EMR or Google DataProc.
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    Pros
    InterSystems
    • Connecting with mutliple vendor platforms and systems allowing us to consume and provide data as needed.
    • Allowed us to implement our own RESTful api engine to server data to our internal applications.
    • Setting up their recommendations for high availability allow us to perform server maintenance with minimal down time to our users.
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    Qubole
    • From a UI perspective, I find Qubole's closest comparison to Cloudera's HUE; it provides a one-stop shop for all data browsing and querying needs.
    • Auto scaling groups and auto-terminating clusters provides cost savings for idle resources.
    • Qubole fits itself well into the open-source data science market by providing a choice of tools that aren't tied to a specific cloud vendor.
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    Cons
    InterSystems
    • Enhanced documentation, more comprehensive and user-friendly documentation, including detailed tutorials and examples
    • Improving compatibility and integrations with others programming languages
    • Introducing tools and techniques to optimize the performance of ObjectScript applications, such as profiling tools, performance monitoring utilities, and code optimization guidelines
    • A better compatibility with Python libraries
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    Qubole
    • Providing an open selection of all cloud provider instance types with no explanation as to their ideal use cases causes too much confusion for new users setting up a new cluster. For example, not everyone knows that Amazon's R or X-series models are memory optimized, while the C and M-series are for general computation.
    • I would like to see more ETL tools provided other than DistCP that allow one to move data between Hadoop Filesystems.
    • From the cluster administration side, onboarding of new users for large companies seems troublesome, especially when trying to create individual cluster per team within the company. Having the ability to debug and share code/queries between users of other teams / clusters should also be possible.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    InterSystems
    No answers on this topic
    Qubole
    Personally, I have no issues using Amazon EMR with Hue and Zeppelin, for example, for data science and exploratory analysis. The benefits to using Qubole are that it offers additional tooling that may not be available in other cloud providers without manual installation and also offers auto-terminating instances and scaling groups.
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    Usability
    InterSystems
    The interface is very intuitive, the documentation is very good so it is not complicated to operate.
    The security is complex, but you can create a special role to access and the user ONLY can operate with the part that it allows.
    Also, you can examine the data very quick with the SQL Browser integrated.
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    Qubole
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    InterSystems
    The InterSystems WRC has always been helpful and responsive. The folks I have spoken with are always understanding of our needs and questions and regardless of if the question is simple or complex we are always met with the same professionalism and helpfulness every time. I have no hesitations contacting InterSystems for help!
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    Qubole
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    InterSystems
    Will done based on a proper planning, so this will makes execution more easier and better.
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    Qubole
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    InterSystems
    We are using InterSystems IRIS [especially] for database operations as the query performance is really good for [a large] amount of customer data. You can easily integrate for any application like web, desktop, and many more. It also provides BI functionality which is also very easy to implement using InterSystems IRIS[.]
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    Qubole
    Qubole was decided on by upper management rather than these competitive offerings. I find that Databricks has a better Spark offering compared to Qubole's Zeppelin notebooks.
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    Return on Investment
    InterSystems
    • Very Fast and scalable software to deal with big data flow, safe and robust.
    • The studio IDE is quite old fashion and lacks a few facilities
    • amazing for complex data consumption, its milyi-model capability wich allows multiple different models for a single set of codes.
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    Qubole
    • We like to say that Qubole has allowed for "data democratization", meaning that each team is responsible for their own set of tooling and use cases rather than being limited by versions established by products such as Hortonworks HDP or Cloudera CDH
    • One negative impact is that users have over-provisioned clusters without realizing it, and end up paying for it. When setting up a new cluster, there are too many choices to pick from, and data scientists may not understand the instance types or hardware specs for the datasets they need to operate on.
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