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An AWS Athena Service is an AWS service that is a SQL querying service.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Hive DBMS-based service.
- Presto DBMS-based service.
- See: Hive DBMS, Data Lake.
References
2017
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Web_Services#Analytics
- Amazon Athena is an ETL-like service launched in November of 2016. It allows server-less querying of S3 content using standard SQL.[1]
2017
- https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
- QUOTE: Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
Athena is easy to use. Simply point to your data in Amazon S3, define the schema, and start querying using standard SQL. Most results are delivered within seconds. With Athena, there’s no need for complex ETL jobs to prepare your data for analysis. This makes it easy for anyone with SQL skills to quickly analyze large-scale datasets.
- QUOTE: Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run.
- ↑ "Amazon Athena". https://aws.amazon.com/athena/. Retrieved 7 March 2017.