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Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB vs. Amazon Athena

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
ApsaraDB
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Alibaba Cloud offers ApsaraDB, a range of scalable online database services that provide operation and maintenance of more than 90% of the mainstream open source and commercial databases (such as MySQL, SQL Server, and Redis). Also, ApsaraDB provides POLARDB performant databases. In addition, ApsaraDB offers HybridDB with 100TB of real-time data computational capabilities. ApsaraDB delivers a comprehensive solution that includes disaster recovery, backups, restoration, monitoring, and migration.N/A
Amazon Athena
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, customers can point Athena at their data stored in S3 and begin using standard SQL to run ad-hoc queries and get results in seconds. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to setup or manage, and customers pay only for the queries they run. You can use Athena to process logs, perform ad-hoc analysis, and run…
$5
per TB of Data Scanned
Pricing
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Editions & Modules
No answers on this topic
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Features
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB
-
Ratings
Amazon Athena
8.6
4 Ratings
1% above category average
Automatic software patching00 Ratings8.22 Ratings
Database scalability00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
Automated backups00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
Database security provisions00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
Automatic host deployment00 Ratings9.22 Ratings
User Ratings
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Likelihood to Recommend
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDBAmazon Athena
Likelihood to Recommend
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
If you are looking to take a lot of the traditional "database administration" work off someone's plate, going with Amazon Athena certainly has "no code" options to optimize lots of database tasks. I would say this option is less appropriate if you have other Microsoft things at play, such as Power BI.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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Pros
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
  • Nested Schemas like JSON data structure
  • Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better
  • Performance Improvement
RK
Riyaz Khan
Data Engineer
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Cons
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
  • Response caching can be improved.
  • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alok Pabalkar
Co-Founder & CTO
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Usability
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
Easy to use. Scalable. Gets the job of data warehousing setup done. Using the datalake on S3 has become super convenient.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alok Pabalkar
Co-Founder & CTO
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Alternatives Considered
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
Alibaba Cloud
No answers on this topic
Amazon AWS
  • The query speeds help us make more decisions in a day (speed).
  • If you need more horsepower for specific times in the day this option helps scale.
  • The security of your environment is well protected too.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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