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Amazon Athena vs. Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Athena

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)

    Score5.1 out of 10
    N/AAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) is presented by the vendor as a fast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed document database service that supports MongoDB workloads. As a document database, Amazon DocumentDB is designed to make it easy to store, query, and index JSON data.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon AthenaAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon AthenaAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Features
    Amazon AthenaAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    -
    Ratings
    Automatic software patching8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database scalability9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated backups7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    Database security provisions9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Monitoring and metrics8.04 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automatic host deployment9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Score8.8 out of 10
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    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon AthenaAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon AthenaAmazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility)
    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.
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    Amazon AWS
    AWS Document DB (with MongoDB compatibility) is well suited when for all the workloads due to its huge feature offerings which will reduce our operational overhead and due to that we can focus more on our WorkLoad rather than optimising and fine tuning Databases. Its Offerings are Advanced Monitoring, DB cluster Upgrades, Migration Assistant, High Availability, Fault Tolerance, Data Durability, Security, Storage Auto Scaling, Backup Restore policies.AWS Document DB (with MongoDB compatibility) some of the features that are there in some other services like MongoDB Atlas that offers vast amount of features plus Supports Multi Cloud while Deploying Database clusters, Immediate support to latest Mongo DB versions, Mobile & Edge Sync like Atlas Edge Sync, Freedom to choose Database deployment in Any top Public Cloud, Having more then 100 plus Monitoring and Telemetry metrics for index and schema recommendations, More Compatibility with MongoDB queries.
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    Pros
    Amazon AWS
    • Nested Schemas like JSON data structure
    • Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better
    • Performance Improvement
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    • Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) provides Auto scaling of cluster as a by default functionality through this we can focus on more on our applications end
    • Through AWS Document DB without much operation overhead we can configure for Database's high availability, Durability, Backup Restores policies, Advanced Monitoring, Security Parameters.
    • Also they can provide us a Guide for Database Migration from any Supported Mongo DB vendor to AWS Document DB.
    • Via AWS Document DB query Logging ( Profiling ) we can fine tune our database queries and hence improving our END to END Customer Experience and Product Enhancements.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Response caching can be improved.
    • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Give support for Latest Mongo DB versions available in market
    • AWS Document DB is limited up to 32 shards per cluster and 2 shards per Document DB instance and all within single region
    • Start supporting more numbers of Rich data types
    • Should have access to MongoDB experts who throw light on Cutting edge mongoDB features and integration consulting.
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    Usability
    Amazon AWS
    Easy to use. Scalable. Gets the job of data warehousing setup done. Using the datalake on S3 has become super convenient.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Amazon AWS
    • Great Customer Experience as DB queries are fine tuned
    • Less Operational Overhead to manage and take care of the Database
    • Automatic applying of Small patches
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