TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Athena

    Score7.5 out of 10
    N/AAmazon 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

    Percona Server

    Score9.7 out of 10
    N/APercona Server for MySQL is a free, compatible, enhanced, open source drop-in replacement for MySQL. Percona states it provides superior performance, scalability, and instrumentation. Boasting over 5,300,000 downloads, Percona Server’s self-tuning algorithms and support for high-performance hardware delivers excellent performance and reliability Percona Server for MySQL delivers enterprise-grade features and higher uptime, along with a number of key benefits that…N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—Free and open-source
    More Pricing Information
    Community Pulse
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
    No answer on this topic
    Percona
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and Percona Server
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Percona Server
    -
    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
    Best Alternatives
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Small Businesses
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.9
    (5 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.7
    (4 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.7
    (3 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Amazon AthenaPercona Server
    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
    Read full review
    Percona
    Percona Server for MySQL covers 100% of our requirements in terms of our OLTP traffic and provides the High Availability levels required through a typical primary and 2 replica's using semi-synchronous replication. We're able to scale our writes using sharding, but a true distributed database would be a great option on top of this. In terms of OLAP traffic, we leverage columns stores available, but Percona Server fairs well
    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
    Read full review
    Percona
    • Faster than other server solutions
    • Installation and configuration process is easy from the user's standpoint
    • Easy to learn and good support
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Response caching can be improved.
    • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Percona
    • Better documentation
    • A better UI
    Read full review
    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
    Read full review
    Percona
    It is easy to install and use. Using it along with Percona Monitoring and Management makes it even easier to use.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Percona
    We are using opensource so we have not used customer support.
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    Amazon AWS
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Percona
    Performance and stability sets Percona Server for MySQL apart from the rest. Percona embraces the upstream version and contributes towards the upstream version making MySQL stronger on two fronts and thus having a much larger community. Many quality contributions have been made by Percona into the base code. Percona provides great tools to support Percona Server for MySQL and this makes the monitoring and management easier
    Read full review
    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
    Read full review
    Percona
    • At the performance level, it maintains and even improves other open-source databases such as MariaDB or some commercial ones such as Oracle.
    • If we compare it with MySQL, we could have up to 50% improvement in performance.
    • For some small companies or startups, the price of the complete solution and the support can be a bit high.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    Percona Server Screenshots

    Screenshot of Percona Server for MySQL FeaturesScreenshot of Percona Server for MySQL Features