Amazon Athena vs. Firebolt

Firebolt

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Amazon Athena	Score 8.6 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
Firebolt	Score 8.0 out of 10	N/A	Firebolt's Cloud Data Warehouse is designed to deliver extreme speed and elasticity at any scale to solve impossible data challenges. The vendor states it combines the best of high performance database architecture with the infinite scale of the data lake, enabling you to perform analytics at jaw-dropping speed across terabyte and petabyte scale. Built on a decoupled storage and compute architecture, Firebolt allows users to scale up or down to support any workload.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Athena

Firebolt

Editions & Modules

Price per Query: $5.00
per TB of Data Scanned

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Athena	Firebolt
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Firebolt introduces a new business model that ensures true alignment of interests with customers. You can now rely on Firebolt to support your ever growing data and compute requirements, enabling you to run more queries faster, without breaking the bank. Firebolt pricing includes a fixed annual cost (described in the tiers below) as well as AWS cloud costs for resources you decide to use (fully transparent AWS compute and storage at the baseline cost. We don't make any profit here).

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Athena	Firebolt

Features

Amazon Athena

Firebolt

Database-as-a-Service

Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Athena 8.6 4 Ratings 0% above category average	Firebolt - Ratings
Automatic software patching	8.22 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database scalability	9.03 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated backups	7.73 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database security provisions	9.22 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	8.04 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	9.22 Ratings	00 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Athena	Firebolt
Small Businesses	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	Google BigQuery Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub Score 9.0 out of 10
Enterprises	IBM Cloudant Score 7.4 out of 10	Oracle Exadata Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Amazon Athena	Firebolt
Likelihood to Recommend	10.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	10.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Athena	Firebolt
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. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
Pros	Amazon AWS Nested Schemas like JSON data structure Ability to adapt the data model to fit your queries better Performance Improvement Incentivized RK Riyaz Khan Data Engineer Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
Cons	Amazon AWS Response caching can be improved. Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved. Incentivized Alok Pabalkar Co-Founder & CTO Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
Usability	Amazon AWS Easy to use. Scalable. Gets the job of data warehousing setup done. Using the datalake on S3 has become super convenient. Incentivized Alok Pabalkar Co-Founder & CTO Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Amazon AWS Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
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. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Read full review	Firebolt No answers on this topic
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