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Amazon Athena vs. Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting 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
Amazon QLDB
Score 9.9 out of 10
N/A
Amazon QLDB (for Quantum Ledger Database) is a fully managed ledger database that provides what the vendor describes as a transparent, immutable, and cryptographically verifiable transaction log ‎owned by a central trusted authority. Amazon QLDB can be used to track each and every application data change and maintains a complete and verifiable history of changes over time. Notably, with QLDB data’s change history is immutable – it cannot be altered or deleted – and using cryptography, users can…
$0.03
Per GB-month
Pricing
Amazon AthenaAmazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
Journal Storage
$0.03
Per GB-month
Read I/Os
$0.136
Per Million Requests
Inndexed Storage
$0.25
Per GB-month
Write I/Os
$0.70
Per Million Requests
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaAmazon QLDB
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
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Top Cons

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Features
Amazon AthenaAmazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
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
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups7.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics8.73 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 9.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon AthenaAmazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(3 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaAmazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB)
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.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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Amazon AWS
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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
RK
Riyaz Khan
Data Engineer
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Amazon AWS
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Query manager can incoperate GUI based query designer
  • Auto-completion engine sometimes overwrite the query
  • Time range selection should be implicit
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Amazon AWS
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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.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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Amazon AWS
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
  • Easy to query terabytes of data with faster response
  • Pricing model is also cheap
  • No indexing and partitioning
RK
Riyaz Khan
Data Engineer
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Amazon AWS
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