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Amazon Athena vs. Azure Data Lake Analytics

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Amazon Athena

    Score9.9 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

    Azure Data Lake Analytics

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft's Azure Data Lake Analytics is a BI service for processing big data jobs without consideration for infrastructure.N/A
    Pricing
    Amazon AthenaAzure Data Lake Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    Price per Query
    $5.00
    per TB of Data Scanned
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Amazon AthenaAzure Data Lake Analytics
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Amazon AthenaAzure Data Lake Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Amazon AWS
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    Microsoft
    Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
    We did some research about Alibaba Cloud Data Lake Analytics and even being cheaper than Azure Data Lake Analytics, we decided to go for the second one once we noticed they have more features and better documentation. Another thing we considered during this process was the fact …
    Incentivized
    Chose Azure Data Lake Analytics
    Both of the products selected are very good at what they do, but data lake analytics is able to bundle everything else within our preexisting data lake, which is a very big [deciding] factor.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Amazon AthenaAzure Data Lake Analytics
    Database-as-a-Service
    Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Amazon Athena and Azure Data Lake Analytics
    Feature
    Amazon Athena
    8.6
    4 Ratings
    Azure Data Lake Analytics
    -
    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
    User Ratings
    Amazon AthenaAzure Data Lake Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)