Amazon Athena vs. Couchbase Capella

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 9.1 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
Couchbase Capella
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
The Couchbase Capella product is a fully managed DBaaS automating setup and ongoing operations.
$0.32
per hour per node
Pricing
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
Basic
$0.32
per hour per node
Developer Pro
$0.40
per hour per node
Enterprise
$0.65
per hour per node
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
Top Pros

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Top Cons

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Features
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
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
Couchbase Capella
-
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 metrics8.14 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.22 Ratings00 Ratings
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Small Businesses
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Score 7.7 out of 10
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Score 7.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Score 7.7 out of 10
IBM Cloudant
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Score 7.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 7.7 out of 10
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Score 7.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaCouchbase Capella
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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Couchbase
Couchbase is a great NoSQL database and most businesses will benefit from this software. For those launching and developing applications, Couchbase is a solution. In addition, those businesses that requires a NoSQL data base will as well benefit. In a nutshell, Couchbase has something for every business depending on the version you choose.
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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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Couchbase
  • Query searching
  • Can integrate multiple data sources
  • High performance database
  • Disaster recovery
  • Scalable
  • Very secure
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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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Couchbase
  • Query processing is slow
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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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Couchbase
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Performance
Amazon AWS
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Couchbase
Couchbase handles multiple data sources efficiently and is also good at handling high data volumes. It is scalable as well which is a plus
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Couchbase
Couchbase offers more flexibility, it is more secure and most importantly, it is scalable and therefore affordable.
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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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Couchbase
  • This is a NoSQL Database
  • Couchbase is very secure
  • Couchbase is very fast when processing queries
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