Amazon Athena vs. Google BigLake

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Amazon Athena
Score 9.8 out of 10
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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
Google BigLake
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
Built on years of investment in BigQuery, BigLake is a storage engine that allows organizations to unify data warehouses and lakes, and enable them to perform uniform fine-grained access control, and accelerate query performance across multi-cloud storage and open formats.N/A
Pricing
Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
Editions & Modules
Price per Query
$5.00
per TB of Data Scanned
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
Features
Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
Database-as-a-Service
Comparison of Database-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
Amazon Athena
8.6
Ratings
1% below category average
Google BigLake
-
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
User Ratings
Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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-
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Usability
10.0
(0 ratings)
-
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User Testimonials
Amazon AthenaGoogle BigLake
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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Pros
  • Load Balance traffic analysis
  • Big data report generation
  • Micro services pattern query analysis
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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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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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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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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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