Amazon Athena vs. Apache Airflow

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 9.0 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
Apache Airflow
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Apache Airflow is an open source tool that can be used to programmatically author, schedule and monitor data pipelines using Python and SQL. Created at Airbnb as an open-source project in 2014, Airflow was brought into the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator Program 2016 and announced as Top-Level Apache Project in 2019. It is used as a data orchestration solution, with over 140 integrations and community support.N/A
Pricing
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Considered Both Products
Amazon Athena
Chose Amazon Athena
- Super Cost-Effective - Well integrated with the AWS ecosystem - Easy setup with multiple formats.
Apache Airflow

No answer on this topic

Top Pros
Top Cons
Features
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
8.6
4 Ratings
1% below category average
Apache Airflow
-
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
Workload Automation
Comparison of Workload Automation features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Apache Airflow
9.7
10 Ratings
16% above category average
Multi-platform scheduling00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Central monitoring00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Logging00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Alerts and notifications00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Analysis and visualization00 Ratings9.910 Ratings
Application integration00 Ratings9.010 Ratings
Best Alternatives
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Small Businesses
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.7 out of 10

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Medium-sized Companies
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.7 out of 10
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
ActiveBatch Workload Automation
Score 8.0 out of 10
Enterprises
IBM Cloudant
IBM Cloudant
Score 7.7 out of 10
Redwood RunMyJobs
Redwood RunMyJobs
Score 9.3 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.0
(10 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaApache Airflow
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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Apache
For a quick job scanning of status and deep-diving into job issues, details, and flows, AirFlow does a good job. No fuss, no muss. The low learning curve as the UI is very straightforward, and navigating it will be familiar after spending some time using it. Our requirements are pretty simple. Job scheduler, workflows, and monitoring. The jobs we run are >100, but still is a lot to review and troubleshoot when jobs don't run. So when managing large jobs, AirFlow dated UI can be a bit of a drawback.
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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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Apache
  • In charge of the ETL processes.
  • As there is no incoming or outgoing data, we may handle the scheduling of tasks as code and avoid the requirement for monitoring.
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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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Apache
  • they should bring in some time based scheduling too not only event based
  • they do not store the metadata due to which we are not able to analyze the workflows
  • they only support python as of now for scripted pipeline writing
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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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Apache
Easy to learn Easy to use Robust workflow orchestration framework Good in dependent job management
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Apache
There are a number of reasons to choose Apache Airflow over other similar platforms- Integrations—ready-to-use operators allow you to integrate Airflow with cloud platforms (Google, AWS, Azure, etc) Apache Airflow helps with backups and other DevOps tasks, such as submitting a Spark job and storing the resulting data on a Hadoop cluster It has machine learning model training, such as triggering a Sage maker job.
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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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Apache
  • A lot of helpful features out-of-the-box, such as the DAG visualizations and task trees
  • Allowed us to implement complex data pipelines easily and at a relatively low cost
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