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Amazon Athena vs. HCL Actian Data Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 7.9 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
HCL Actian Data Platform
Score 8.0 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
The HCL Actian Data Platform (formerly Actian Avalanche) hybrid cloud data warehouse is a fully managed service that aims to deliver high performance and scale across all dimensions – data volume, concurrent user, and query complexity – at a lower cost than alternative solutions. Avalanche has built-in self-service data integration that can be deployed on-premises as well as on multiple clouds, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, enabling users to migrate or offload applications and data to…N/A
Pricing
Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Features
Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
8.6
4 Ratings
1% above category average
HCL Actian Data Platform
-
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
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Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Small Businesses
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Score 7.4 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
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Snowflake
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(4 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaHCL Actian Data Platform
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.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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HCL Technologies
This is a tool geared for smaller to mid-sized business that has disparate sources of data from different platforms in varying incarnations. It’s a great ETL tool to solve the problems a scenario like that causes, but you can also achieve that with good BI Tools like Qlik Sense. So be careful that you really need an ETL tool, as opposed to an end-use tool with a built-in ETL component. If you are going ELT and have a lot of data an not a lot of corporate resources, this is a better option than Microsoft or Informatica
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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
RK
Riyaz Khan
Data Engineer
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HCL Technologies
  • Quick response for queries involving multi-million rows
  • Low cost
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Anonymous
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Cons
Amazon AWS
  • Response caching can be improved.
  • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alok Pabalkar
Co-Founder & CTO
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HCL Technologies
  • As I said before, more training or greater visibility to training tools/options would be a plus. It’s easy to publish YouTube videos these days, I think they should make more of them.
  • Differentiation would help, there’s not a lot out there to drive you to buy the product if you are well informed in the market. If you know the market, you steer towards the large or trendy products. It’s a good product, but lost in the noise of the field I think.
  • Hitching the wagon to a major software brand (like Mule did to Salesforce) would help grow the user base, and thus increase the activity in the support community. More users also translates into product champions.
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Anonymous
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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.
Alok Pabalkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Alok Pabalkar
Co-Founder & CTO
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HCL Technologies
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
Verified User
Anonymous
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HCL Technologies
Oracle>DB2>MS SQL Server>GreenPlum>Vectorwise
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Anonymous
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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.
Scott Kennedy | TrustRadius Reviewer
Scott Kennedy
Sr Director, BI
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HCL Technologies
  • We had to move out of VectorWise after using the database for 2 years. Hence no positive impacts.
Verified User
Anonymous
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