Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 7.6 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 QuickSight
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
N/A
$3
per month per user
Looker
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Looker is a BI application with an analytics-oriented application server that sits on top of relational data stores. It includes an end-user interface for exploring data, a reusable development paradigm for data discovery, and an API for supporting data in other systems.N/A
Pricing
Amazon AthenaAmazon QuickSightLooker
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
Reader
$3
per month per user
Author
$24
per month per user
Reader Pro
$24
per month per user
Author Pro
$50
per month per user
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaAmazon QuickSightLooker
Free Trial
NoYesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeRequired
Additional DetailsProspective buyers can also purchase a set number of sessions or questions in lieu of a monthly subscription.Must contact sales team for pricing.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Multiple Products
Amazon Athena
Chose Amazon Athena
- Super Cost-Effective - Well integrated with the AWS ecosystem - Easy setup with multiple formats.
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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 …
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Traefik Mesh, DigitalOcean Kubernetes and Amazon DynamoDB
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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 …
Amazon QuickSight
Chose Amazon QuickSight
As per our requirement, the Amazon Eco System leads us to use the Amazon Quick Sight platform. It works well with Redshift datasources.
Chose Amazon QuickSight
Due to the fact that our platform infrastructure is mainly based on AWS, it was seamless and effortless for integration. Our second consideration is the operating cost in which QuickSight is reasonably low compared to other tools we had evaluated. From a development …
Chose Amazon QuickSight
QuickSight is best suited to augment your other BI solutions, not as a primary tool. It still very immature when you compare it to products like Tableau, Qlik, Microsoft Power BI and others. However, it is very easy to get connected to data sources and a good way to …
Chose Amazon QuickSight
All of the other reporting platforms my organization has used previously were within our CRM and not a standalone program. In that we were very limited in being able to slice and dice the data the way that we wanted to.
Chose Amazon QuickSight
In our case, we are storing our large amount of data in the cloud so using QuickSight adds up to the performance of the reporting. We are using it as a secondary reporting tool so that a business user can generate their own report. We are using Tableau as our primary reporting …
Looker
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Looker seems friendlier and more accessible.
Chose Looker
Looker was the most customizable option for our business and cost wise made the most sense. They do have a free tier option that some of the other weren't offering to us at the time. Looker has a great- mobile app solution while tableau is a desktop-based platform. Tableau also …
Chose Looker
The biggest advantage that Looker Studio has is that it's really easy to use and to distribute to other use. You can have a really complex report set up in a couple of minutes with an extract data source that enables Looker to update really fast.
Chose Looker
Looker is less complex to use and links directly to google suite which we use across the business and personally think is a better user experience than microsoft.
Chose Looker
We have not used any other products; we've only ever needed to use Looker Studio and didn't need to demo anything else because it provided everything we needed.
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Looker stacks up well against other data providers for usability and friendly interfaces, plus the ability to customise. We actually integrate Looker with other analytics tools in the same sphere (power bi, dreamdata and others) so that we can have one comprehensive dashboard …
Chose Looker
In my opinion, Looker is no Power BI. It is good, but I think Power BI is amazing. That said, in my experience, Power BI is nowhere near as easy to setup and report on Google services as Looker is. We plan to continue using Power BI for c-suite and corporate reporting, …
Chose Looker
Looker is a free and easier analytics and dashboard tool. It provides enough data and features to get things done and analyze marketing data. The other tools have more advanced features and are more suited for other things besides marketing.
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Tableau provides additional visual functionality and is great for more in-depth visuals or further data exploration, but it is costly and an extremely robust solution for simple data reporting. Looker can't be beat when it comes to integrating with other G-Suite tools. All in …
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Looker is a lot less overwhelming and lets you take the data that you have in Google analytics to make it understandable, focused and specific to the audience that is viewing the content. I haven’t used any other tools, but feel because of the ease of accessibility and cost, …
Chose Looker
I prefer agency analytics as it has a lot more agnostic integration options and is much speedier but does come at a cost. I would recommend this over Looker studio for sure. It has great templates to use too and allows for more customisation and racing benchmarks which is a …
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We'll still use Semrush's reporting for some clients - depending on the metrics which are important for them and whether they have an interest in live reporting or simply monthly PDF reports.
Chose Looker
If you company is using Google suite products, Looker is a no-brainer. Tableau is probably the most flexibly but as a result it has the least governance capabilities. Power BI is kind of old-school in terms of how it feels to use it. I think in general, Looker brings a lot of …
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Better in terms of data configuration with slight harder learning curve, available help material is not that much and we usually have to connect with Looker Help with chat for our data and analysis questions. While Looker offers a wide range of visualization options, there were …
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Looker Studio, you can easily report on data from various sources without programming. Looker Studio is available at no charge for creators and report viewers. Enterprise customers who upgrade to Looker Studio Pro will receive support and expanded administrative features, …
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It takes forever sometimes to have data ready in tableau dashboard, and also it takes effort to maintain each dashboards. We do not have so many efforts to maintain all. Also, we need to be able to see data faster and therefore take actions and work faster. With Looker we might …
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Looker gives you options to integrate external APIs with great ease. Our data analytics team is able to easily use multiple data sources as input to the Looker dashboard, and everything is consolidated in one single Dashboard. You also have an option for Shared folders to be …
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I chose Looker because can incorporate multiple sources, mostly which are Google owned. The data can sync automatically, and the graphs are visually appealing.
Chose Looker
Looker Studio is not as robust as Tableau or Microsoft BI. So it does not provide quite as much insight or depth and it has more limitations overall then the other major reporting products. However, it is also free and connects perfectly with other Google products. Plus, all of …
Chose Looker
Technically, Power BI is much more complete and powerful, but it's like an ocean liner. I didn't need all that equipment. In my case, I needed to move more quickly, like on a speedboat, to build a page with several data sources in a single source of truth that could be easily …
Chose Looker
Looker is a free tool to use on the basic level, which can't really compare apples to apples since all of the other services are paid services. Looker already has a leg up because of that. The other platforms definitely have more features and capabilities off the bat because it …
Features
Amazon AthenaAmazon QuickSightLooker
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
8.6
Ratings
1% above category average
Amazon QuickSight
-
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Looker
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability9.00 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups7.70 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions9.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.20 Ratings00 Ratings00 Ratings
BI Standard Reporting
Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
Ratings
20% above category average
Looker
7.5
Ratings
9% below category average
Pixel Perfect reports00 Ratings10.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Customizable dashboards00 Ratings10.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Report Formatting Templates00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Ad-hoc Reporting
Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
Ratings
22% above category average
Looker
6.9
Ratings
15% below category average
Drill-down analysis00 Ratings10.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Formatting capabilities00 Ratings10.00 Ratings6.70 Ratings
Integration with R or other statistical packages00 Ratings10.00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration00 Ratings10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Report Output and Scheduling
Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
8.4
Ratings
3% above category average
Looker
8.0
Ratings
2% below category average
Publish to Web00 Ratings8.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Publish to PDF00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Report Versioning00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Report Delivery Scheduling00 Ratings7.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Delivery to Remote Servers00 Ratings7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Data Discovery and Visualization
Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
Ratings
22% above category average
Looker
6.6
Ratings
19% below category average
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Predictive Analytics00 Ratings10.00 Ratings4.60 Ratings
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining00 Ratings10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Access Control and Security
Comparison of Access Control and Security features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
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Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
10.0
Ratings
16% above category average
Looker
7.4
Ratings
14% below category average
Multi-User Support (named login)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.60 Ratings
Role-Based Security Model00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Report-Level Access Control00 Ratings10.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Single Sign-On (SSO)00 Ratings10.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Capabilities
Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
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Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
3.9
Ratings
66% below category average
Looker
5.3
Ratings
37% below category average
Responsive Design for Web Access00 Ratings4.00 Ratings5.20 Ratings
Mobile Application00 Ratings3.50 Ratings5.00 Ratings
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile00 Ratings3.80 Ratings5.90 Ratings
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Amazon QuickSight
6.0
Ratings
25% below category average
Looker
-
Ratings
REST API00 Ratings6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Javascript API00 Ratings6.60 Ratings00 Ratings
iFrames00 Ratings7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Java API00 Ratings6.10 Ratings00 Ratings
Themeable User Interface (UI)00 Ratings7.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Customizable Platform (Open Source)00 Ratings3.00 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
IBM Cloudant
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Score 7.4 out of 10
Yellowfin
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Score 8.6 out of 10
Yellowfin
Yellowfin
Score 8.6 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
Reveal
Reveal
Score 10.0 out of 10
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IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.4 out of 10
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
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Kyvos Semantic Layer
Score 9.5 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Configurability
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Product Scalability
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for analyzing huge amounts of data by just querying on Amazon Athena. Amazon Athena is also best to integrate with Amazon Quickight for visualization and reporting of data. Easy to work with CSV, JSON, and columnar data formats like Parquet, and ORC. Less appropriate to work with AVRO data format and also stored procedures are not supported in Amazon Athena. The size of a single row is also limited to 32 MB.
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I'm likely to recommend it because it would become so native if other cloud services are based on AWS infrastructure, like our current setup. It is very seamlessly integrated with other services to feed in data for the visualization. In addition, supporting a reasonably large number of users concurrently is not an issue and should be able to scale horizontally as needed.
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When data drives potential for new orders, Looker earns its place in our tech stack. If, on the other hand, we are hoping for pipeline generation, Looker is useful if you are willing to repeatedly go check customer utilizations .... it is not appropriate if you are hoping to automate data analysis for this purpose.
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Pros
  • Load Balance traffic analysis
  • Big data report generation
  • Micro services pattern query analysis
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  • Lightweight and serverless BI tool that can be used for niche dashboards.
  • Its integration into other AWS Services is one of its most appealing features.
  • The low monthly cost is another benefit.
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  • It is very easy to start a new dashboard and configure what you want to display by just selecting/dragging from the list of available columns.
  • It is intuitive, mainly if you use other Google services like Google Sheets.
  • The look and feel is modern and nice.
  • It it very useful to have an immediate visual overview of the data in a spreadsheet.
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Cons
  • Every dialect of SQL has some missing functions. I wish there was automated GROUP BY options here.
  • There are connection problems back to Power BI occasionally.
  • If you don't watch certain queries, it's possible that it takes a long time to run and charges you a lot of money.
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  • One of the primary challenges I've had with Amazon QuickSight so far is that some of the reports I want to build use data from different data sets. Instead of being able to put all of the information I want to see into one report.
  • Some of our Amazon QuickSight reports only update every 24 hours. It would be great to see that data in real-time.
  • I would remove the various time zones from Amazon QuickSight and only use the time zone we are in.
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  • I wish I could get more granular in the Google ad data, such as down to the campaign type, instead of having to see only all campaigns.
  • The setup can be time-consuming if you're not using the product regularly.
  • Editing the dashboard requires a few logins; I wish it was more seamless.
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Likelihood to Renew
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We are very haooy with Looker, it provides us with all the funciomalities we need for both the day to day oerformance tracking and longer periods reporting. It is easy to use for account managers, configurable and customizable for soecialists and what is most imoortant, our clinets generally really love it
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Usability
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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It is easy to use and set up no need to put in so much effort. Once build, the dashboard can be used with multiple clients with the same domain. It provides multiple connectivity options which makes it a versatile option for reporting.
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Looker is relatively easy to use, even as it is set up. The customers for the front-end only have issues with the initial setup for looker ml creations. Other "looks" are relatively easy to set up, depending on the ETL and the data which is coming into Looker on a regular basis.
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Reliability and Availability
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No objections
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Performance
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Somehow resources heavy, both on server and client. I recommned at least 50Mbs data rate and high performance desktop comouter to be abke to run comolex tasks and configure larger amount of data. On the other hand, the client does not need to worry when viewing, the performance is usually ok
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Support Rating
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They provide proper support when needed. They are always ready to provide the box solution and make things easier for users.
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Never had to work with support for issues. Any questions we had, they would respond promptly and clearly. The one-time setup was easy, by reading documentation. If the feature is not supported, they will add a feature request. In this case, LDAP support was requested over OKTA. They are looking into it.
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Implementation Rating
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Very satisfied, easy to implement
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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As per our requirement, the Amazon Eco System leads us to use the Amazon Quick Sight platform. It works well with Redshift datasources.
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In my opinion, Looker is no Power BI. It is good, but I think Power BI is amazing. That said, in my experience, Power BI is nowhere near as easy to setup and report on Google services as Looker is. We plan to continue using Power BI for c-suite and corporate reporting, especially for internal databases, but will gladly use Looker for our marketing information for AdWords, Analytics, Search Console, and YouTube.
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Return on Investment
  • It's easy to store and query data on S3. Multiple teams can query the same data to generate their reports. It removes the need for a full-fledged data warehouse for a startup. Saves costs.
  • Improved team efficiency on monitoring user activities by easy logging and reporting.
  • As the dataset gets heavier on S3, one needs to understand partitioning and that leads to the requirement of expertise.
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  • Cost Effective
  • Easy setup and maintenance
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  • Other than some people not liking the numbers, I don't see any negative impacts; we haven't experienced that.
  • The reports help us unravel the story of our users and how they are sifting through our pages.
  • Our clients enjoy seeing the numbers to understand better what stands out on their sites.
  • The reports have helped us see what campaigns are working and where we need to tweak things.
  • The reports have enabled us to have better conversations with stakeholders about how their web pages should be modified, edited, etc., to reflect the data.
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ScreenShots

Looker Screenshots

Screenshot of a Looker dashboard with a geo chart.