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Feature Set Ratings
Database-as-a-Service
7.7
Amazon Athena
77%

InfluxDB
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A
Amazon Athena ranks higher in 6/6 features
Amazon Athena ranks higher in 6/6 features
Automatic software patching
7.0
70%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Database scalability
7.0
70%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Automated backups
8.0
80%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Database security provisions
8.0
80%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics
8.0
80%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Automatic host deployment
8.0
80%
1 Rating

N/A
0 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- InfluxDB is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
Amazon Athena
80%
1 Rating

9.0
InfluxDB
90%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
Amazon Athena
N/A
0 Ratings

9.1
InfluxDB
91%
2 Ratings
Support Rating
Amazon Athena
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
InfluxDB
90%
1 Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon Athena
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.
Sr Director, BI
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
InfluxDB
InfluxDB is very good at storing monitoring metrics (e.g. performance data). InfluxDB is not the right choice if you need to store other data types (like plain text, data relations etc.).
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Pros
Amazon Athena
- The most obvious, is you can use SQL programming language, which a lot of people understand.
- You can scale up to meeting higher processing times.
- The data return speed (query speed) is great.
Sr Director, BI
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
InfluxDB
- Perfect handling telemetry data.
- Low latency, near real time.
- SQL-like language makes it easier to query.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employeesCons
Amazon Athena
- Every dialect of SQL has some missing functions. I wish there was automated GROUP BY options here.
- There are connection problems back to Power BI occasionally.
- If you don't watch certain queries, it's possible that it takes a long time to run and charges you a lot of money.
Sr Director, BI
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
InfluxDB
- GUI based administrator console
Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist
IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees
Pricing Details
Amazon Athena
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
$5 per TB of Data Scanned
Amazon Athena Editions & Modules
Edition
Price per Query | $5.001 |
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- per TB of Data Scanned
Additional Pricing Details
—InfluxDB
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Starting Price
—InfluxDB Editions & Modules
—
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Amazon Athena
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
InfluxDB
InfluxDB 9.1
Based on 2 answers
InfluxDB is a near perfect product for time series database engines. The relatively small list of cons are heavily outweighed by it's ability to just work and be a very flexible and powerful database engine. The community and support provided by the corporation are the only areas I have little experience.
CEO & Co-Founder
NodecraftComputer Games, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Amazon Athena
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
InfluxDB
InfluxDB 9.0
Based on 1 answer
We have worked with the InfluxDB support team a few times so far and it has been positive. Issues submitted are worked on promptly and we have good feedback.
Enterprise Systems Manager Specialist
IntactInsurance, 5001-10,000 employees
Alternatives Considered
Amazon Athena
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.
Sr Director, BI
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
InfluxDB
To be honest, I didn't look at alternatives since InfluxDB performs very well if you can oversee the lack of security and HA features. But for all challenges, there is an easy solution which brings you forward (e.g. read load balancing can be achieved by using a common HTTPS load balancer).
Senior Consultant IT Infrastructure
open *i GmbHInformation Technology and Services, 11-50 employees
Return on Investment
Amazon Athena
- 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.
Sr Director, BI
Franklin SportsSporting Goods, 201-500 employees
InfluxDB
- Provided us a time series DB.
- With the SQL-like language, it is very easy to learn.
- Empowered us to keep track of our events.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Insurance Company, 10,001+ employees