Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena

38 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Athena	Score 8.4 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

Amazon Athena

Editions & Modules

Price per Query: $5.00
per TB of Data Scanned

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Athena
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Athena
Considered Both Products	Amazon Athena RK Riyaz Khan Data Engineer Chose Amazon Athena Amazon Redshift and EMR require explicit configuration for underlying compute infrastructure. In Amazon Athena, Users don't have to set up any underlying infrastructure. It saves a lot of costs required for infrastructure. Users have to pay only for scanned data. Athena is good … Incentivized Helpful? Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Chose Amazon Athena Amazon Athena, a product from Amazon, competes with offerings from Google and Microsoft. Overall, I think your database choice depends on some of the other applications you are running at your company. For example, if you are using Microsoft Power BI for reporting needs, you … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Nice feature Pro Easy to share Pro Data sources
Top Cons	Minus Visualization tools Minus Data set Minus Tools built

Features

Amazon Athena

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Athena 8.5 3 Ratings 3% below category average
Automatic software patching	8.22 Ratings
Database scalability	8.22 Ratings
Automated backups	7.73 Ratings
Database security provisions	9.22 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	8.73 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	9.22 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Amazon Athena
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Athena
Likelihood to Recommend	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. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Read full review
Pros	Amazon AWS Nested Schemas like JSON data structure Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better Performance Improvement Incentivized RK Riyaz Khan Data Engineer Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Query manager can incoperate GUI based query designer Auto-completion engine sometimes overwrite the query Time range selection should be implicit Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Amazon Athena, a product from Amazon, competes with offerings from Google and Microsoft. Overall, I think your database choice depends on some of the other applications you are running at your company. For example, if you are using Microsoft Power BI for reporting needs, you might want to consider going the Azure route. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Easy to query terabytes of data with faster response Pricing model is also cheap No indexing and partitioning Incentivized RK Riyaz Khan Data Engineer Read full review
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