Amazon Athena vs. Oracle Autonomous Database

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 7.6 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
Oracle Autonomous Database
Score 8.5 out of 10
N/A
Oracle Autonomous Database provides a self-driving, self-securing, self-repairing cloud service that eliminate the overhead and human errors associated with traditional database administration. Oracle Autonomous Database takes care of configuration, tuning, backup, patching, encryption, scaling, and more.N/A
Pricing
Amazon AthenaOracle Autonomous Database
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaOracle Autonomous Database
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
Amazon Athena
Chose Amazon Athena
- Super Cost-Effective - Well integrated with the AWS ecosystem - Easy setup with multiple formats.
Chose Amazon Athena
Amazon redshift and EMR require explicit configuration for underlying compute infrastructure. In Amazon Athena, Users don't have to set up any underlying infrastructure. It saves a lot of costs required for infrastructure. Users have to pay only for scanned data. Athena is good …
Chose Amazon Athena
Traefik Mesh, DigitalOcean Kubernetes and Amazon DynamoDB
Chose 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 …
Oracle Autonomous Database
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Amazon did take the lead on this with multiple flavours of DB, but Oracle Engineering is unbeatable.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Tight Coupling with ERP, Easier administration. Availability of performance metrics.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Better management and security have helped decision-making easier.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle DB is levels of magnitude more rich in its functionality, it is much stronger in security, DR, HA, etc. However, the main drawback is its cost compared to MySql.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Because I had a background with Oracle Database, and comparatively the autonomous database is very easy to scale up and to obtain performance information.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Hands down it's the best. It's secure and extremely fast. It also doesn't need a lot of babysitting. It's running itself. It does its job as advertised. This is why I feel everyone should if they haven't already taken a hard look OAD. I feel it's the future of technology at its …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I found Oracle Autonomous Database very secure to store data and private information.I always feel secure with Oracle Autonomous Databases disaster recovery features.It is very effective to build applications for mobile and desktop devices lesser code using a low code …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I just find it more complicated than Aws
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database has the warehouse extension, whose performance has no question, and it increases the relevancy of the company's operations and fosters performance. Further, Oracle Autonomous Database generates high-performance options, which navigates all the …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is the right choice for multiple functionalities, for instance, the warehousing of databases, and transactional analytics. Besides, Oracle Autonomous Database generates a platform that makes the process of application development efficient and …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Security, easy to install, [and] disaster recovery [are why we went with Oracle Autonomous Database].
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
I selected Oracle Autonomous Database because of the scalability, and it's a perfect and stable database that supports multiple features at once.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Before deploying Oracle Autonomous Database, we were doing manual work on our databases.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
We had already experienced people in the team on Oracle as Oracle Database was already being used in the organization. Also, when we compared all other possibilities, it came out as a less costly solution.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Actually, we used both Oracle Autonomous Database for our Oracle-related environments and Azure SQL and Azure VMs hosting SQL Server for our SQL Server-related environments. We have different products, some of them are platform independent (can be deployed on Oracle, SQL …
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
DB2 is a very old kind of database. SQL Server is not secured like Oracle, and I personally do not recommend it.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Oracle Autonomous Database is easy to deploy and use. Provides various supports with security. So it is much better in terms of complexity and performance to manage our application in real time. Cost is also less as compare to other databases. Easy development and deployment is …
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Oracle Java SE Subscription
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
Latest DB with automated features like self-driving cars.
Chose Oracle Autonomous Database
AWS and Digital Ocean are two of the major other systems we have and are still using. But we do use Oracle's systems far more than we use Digital Ocean and AWS. We selected Oracle Autonomous Database mainly because of the new cloud 2.0 benefits. They have convinced us to begin …
Features
Amazon AthenaOracle Autonomous Database
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
8.6
Ratings
2% above category average
Oracle Autonomous Database
-
Ratings
Automatic software patching8.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database scalability9.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automated backups7.70 Ratings00 Ratings
Database security provisions9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Monitoring and metrics8.00 Ratings00 Ratings
Automatic host deployment9.20 Ratings00 Ratings
Database Development
Comparison of Database Development features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Oracle Autonomous Database
7.2
Ratings
17% below category average
Version control tools00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
Test data generation00 Ratings5.70 Ratings
Performance optimization tools00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Schema maintenance00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Database change management00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Database Administration
Comparison of Database Administration features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
-
Ratings
Oracle Autonomous Database
8.3
Ratings
3% above category average
User management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Database security00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Database status reporting00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Change management00 Ratings6.20 Ratings
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User Ratings
Amazon AthenaOracle Autonomous Database
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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8.5
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Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.0
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Usability
10.0
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8.0
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User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaOracle Autonomous Database
Likelihood to Recommend
Best suited for analyzing huge amounts of data by just querying on Amazon Athena. Amazon Athena is also best to integrate with Amazon Quickight for visualization and reporting of data. Easy to work with CSV, JSON, and columnar data formats like Parquet, and ORC. Less appropriate to work with AVRO data format and also stored procedures are not supported in Amazon Athena. The size of a single row is also limited to 32 MB.
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Scenarios where this is best suited are like where there are not large set of data which has to be analyzed and extracted.It helps in the efficiency of data .It is also well suited for medium size companies where you have to create a common data for everyone. As for large set of data, there can be network latency issues and thus there are some limitations of this software.
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Pros
  • Load Balance traffic analysis
  • Big data report generation
  • Micro services pattern query analysis
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  • Robust - this product doesn't have a lot of downtime. It's less prone to errors than some other tools I've worked with.
  • Scalable - we can keep adding more things to it. We haven't hit any roadblocks when we've tried to do more with our database.
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Cons
  • 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.
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  • There is no access to the physical host of the DB. This is expected from a managed DB. Everything must be done through the console or via API calls. This is a new learning curve for the DBAs.
  • Due to the lack of physical host access, certain features are not supported, such as Transportable tablespaces and Oracle LogMiner.
  • Certain special data types, (such as XMLType) are not allowed; be sure the app vendor certifies their product on this platform.
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Likelihood to Renew
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Autonomous is the way of the future and this is one system which is crucial to any system and is also autonomous. It is self-tuning and self-maintaining which are major advantages.
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Usability
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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The product is continuously evolving and new features are added frequently. Management options through the OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) console and through the command line and API are being enhanced frequently.
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Alternatives Considered
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.
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Hands down it's the best. It's secure and extremely fast. It also doesn't need a lot of babysitting. It's running itself. It does its job as advertised. This is why I feel everyone should if they haven't already taken a hard look OAD. I feel it's the future of technology at its best. Everyone should be taking notice of how far technology has come and where it's going.
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Return on Investment
  • It's easy to store and query data on S3. Multiple teams can query the same data to generate their reports. It removes the need for a full-fledged data warehouse for a startup. Saves costs.
  • Improved team efficiency on monitoring user activities by easy logging and reporting.
  • As the dataset gets heavier on S3, one needs to understand partitioning and that leads to the requirement of expertise.
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  • Oracle Autonomous Database has a wide range of warehouses, which is competent and of high performance.
  • The transactional processing power that Oracle Autonomous Database outlines are completely important and digital.
  • The efficiency of Oracle Autonomous Database data encryption fosters security measures, a form that demands more threat detectors.
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ScreenShots

Oracle Autonomous Database Screenshots

Screenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database is supported on Shared or Dedicated Exadata InfrastructureScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports workload-optimized cloud services for Data Warehouse, Transaction Processing,  JSON centric applicationsScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database supports  both License Included and Bring Your Own Licensing (BYOL) with  Yearly and Pay As You Go subscription pricingScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides built-in development  tools such as SQL Developer web, Performance Hub, APIs for data managementScreenshot of Oracle Autonomous Database provides native shell for API driven development