Amazon Athena vs. Google Cloud Dataflow

Amazon Athena

Google Cloud Dataflow

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting 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
Google Cloud Dataflow	Score 7.9 out of 10	N/A	Google offers Cloud Dataflow, a managed streaming analytics platform for real-time data insights, fraud detection, and other purposes.	N/A

Pricing

Amazon Athena

Google Cloud Dataflow

Editions & Modules

Price per Query: $5.00
per TB of Data Scanned

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Amazon Athena	Google Cloud Dataflow
Free Trial
No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Amazon Athena	Google Cloud Dataflow
Top Pros	Pro Nice feature Pro Easy to share Pro Data sources	No answers on this topic
Top Cons	Minus Visualization tools Minus Data set Minus Tools built	No answers on this topic

Features

Amazon Athena

Google Cloud Dataflow

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	Google Cloud Dataflow - Ratings
Automatic software patching	8.22 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database scalability	8.22 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automated backups	7.73 Ratings	00 Ratings
Database security provisions	9.22 Ratings	00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics	8.73 Ratings	00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment	9.22 Ratings	00 Ratings

Streaming Analytics

Comparison of Streaming Analytics features of Product A and Product B
	Amazon Athena - Ratings	Google Cloud Dataflow 7.5 1 Ratings 8% below category average
Real-Time Data Analysis	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Data Ingestion from Multiple Data Sources	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Low Latency	00 Ratings	8.01 Ratings
Linear Scale-Out	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Machine Learning Automation	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Data Enrichment	00 Ratings	7.01 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Amazon Athena	Google Cloud Dataflow
Small Businesses	SingleStore Score 9.8 out of 10	Amazon Kinesis Score 8.0 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	SingleStore Score 9.8 out of 10	Confluent Score 7.4 out of 10
Enterprises	SingleStore Score 9.8 out of 10	Spotfire Streaming Score 8.1 out of 10
All Alternatives	View all alternatives	View all alternatives

User Ratings
	Amazon Athena	Google Cloud Dataflow
Likelihood to Recommend	9.5 (3 ratings)	8.0 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Amazon Athena	Google Cloud Dataflow
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	Google Based on my experience, streaming / real time / machine learning / AI type of processing and batch processing which needs less transformation are very well suited. Work load that needs complex transformation / multiple hops gets very complicated to implement. New feature like Dataflow SQL option will come in handy for sql heavy users. Sathish Palanivel(He/Him) Cloud Architect Read full review
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	Google Streaming, Real time work load Batch processing Auto scaling flexible pricing Sathish Palanivel(He/Him) Cloud Architect Read full review
Cons	Amazon AWS Query manager can incoperate GUI based query designer Auto-completion engine sometimes overwrite the query Time range selection should be implicit Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Google inbuild template options can be expanded more data connector options easy of use Sathish Palanivel(He/Him) Cloud Architect Read full review
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. Incentivized Scott Kennedy Sr Director, BI Read full review	Google Google Cloud Dataproc Cloud Datafusion Sathish Palanivel(He/Him) Cloud Architect Read full review
Return on Investment	Amazon AWS Easy to query terabytes of data with faster response Pricing model is also cheap No indexing and partitioning Incentivized RK Riyaz Khan Data Engineer Read full review	Google cost saving from managing our own data center for ETL servers consumption based pricing with auto scaling feature, we were able to expand components to support work load Sathish Palanivel(He/Him) Cloud Architect Read full review
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