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    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

    AWS Glue

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/AAWS Glue is a managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service designed to make it easy for customers to prepare and load data for analytics. With it, users can create and run an ETL job in the AWS Management Console. Users point AWS Glue to data stored on AWS, and AWS Glue discovers data and stores the associated metadata (e.g. table definition and schema) in the AWS Glue Data Catalog. Once cataloged, data is immediately searchable, queryable, and available for ETL.

    $0.44

    billed per second, 1 minute minimum

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    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
    per DPU-Hour
    $0.44
    billed per second, 1 minute minimum
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    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
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    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    Chose AWS Glue
    Glue is easier especially if you are already in AWS. It easily integrates to other AWS services. Compliments well with Amazon Athena, S3, and Lake Formation. Compared to Snowflake, it is also much much cheaper and you don't have to build outside AWS. Support is also good if you …
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    Chose AWS Glue
    AWS Glue is a managed service. It was easier for us to integrate it into our stack since we are already an AWS shop. It saved us the headache of managing a 3rd part service.
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    Features
    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and AWS Glue
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    2% above category average
    AWS Glue
    -
    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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    MongoDB Atlas
    Score7.8 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Azure Database
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Toad Data Point
    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Google Cloud SQL
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Datameer
    Score8.4 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
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    9.1
    (10 ratings)
    Usability
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    Support Rating
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    User Testimonials
    Amazon AthenaAWS Glue
    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.
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    One of AWS Glue's most notable features that aid in the creation and transformation of data is its data catalog. Support, scheduling, and the automation of the data schema recognition make it superior to its competitors aside from that. It also integrates perfectly with other AWS tools. The main restriction may be integrated with systems outside of the AWS environment. It functions flawlessly with the current AWS services but not with other goods. Another potential restriction that comes to mind is that glue operates on a spark, which means the engineer needs to be conversant in the language.
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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
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    Amazon AWS
    • It is extremely fast, easy, and self-intuitive. Though it is a suite of services, it requires pretty less time to get control over it.
    • As it is a managed service, one need not take care of a lot of underlying details. The identification of data schema, code generation, customization, and orchestration of the different job components allows the developers to focus on the core business problem without worrying about infrastructure issues.
    • It is a pay-as-you-go service. So, there is no need to provide any capacity in advance. So, it makes scheduling much easier.
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    Cons
    Amazon AWS
    • Response caching can be improved.
    • Data Partitioning is tricky and understanding of the same could be improved.
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    Amazon AWS
    • In-Stream schema registries feature people can not use this more efficiently
    • in Connections feature they can add more connectors as well
    • The crucial problem with AWS Glue is that it only works with AWS.
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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.
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    Amazon AWS
    While easy to set up and manage monitoring for large datasets, its complexity can be a barrier for new users. Integration with AWS Ecosystem, Managed Monitoring, Dashboards and monitoring tools for AWS Glue are generally easy to set up and maintain, Automated Data Pipelines. Automates data pipeline creation, making it efficient for certain data integration
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    Support Rating
    Amazon AWS
    No answers on this topic
    Amazon AWS
    Amazon responds in good time once the ticket has been generated but needs to generate tickets frequent because very few sample codes are available, and it's not cover all the scenarios.
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    Amazon AWS
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    Amazon AWS
    AWS Glue is a fully managed ETL service that automates many ETL tasks, making it easier to set AWS Glue simplifies ETL through a visual interface and automated code generation.
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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.
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    Amazon AWS
    • We are using GLUE for our ETL purpose. it’s ease with other our AWS services makes our ROI, 100% ROI.
    • One missing piece was compatibility with other data source for which we found a work around and made our data source as S3 only, so our dependencies on other data source is also reducing
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