Amazon Athena
5.9#16 in query engine software$0.30 usage-basedWebAPI
VisitAmazon Athena vs IBM Db2
What both publish
| Fact | Amazon Athena | IBM Db2 |
|---|---|---|
| Integrations | Athena integrates with AWS Glue and offers built-in connectors to 30 data stores, including Amazon Redshift, Amazon DynamoDB, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and SAP Hana. | IBM documents connections through drivers and integrations with DataStage, Segment, Cognos Analytics, Looker, Tableau, Excel, SPSS Statistics, SAS, and R. |
| Purpose | Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL. | IBM describes Db2 as an AI-powered database for low-latency transactions, real-time analytics, and mission-critical workloads. |
| Security | Access to data can be controlled with IAM policies, access control lists, and S3 bucket policies, and Athena supports querying encrypted S3 data and writing encrypted results. | IBM describes access controls, encryption for data in motion and at rest, behavior monitoring, and data masking features for Db2. |
Amazon Athena plans
- SQL queries with Capacity Reservations$0.30 a month
- Apache Spark$0.35 a month
- SQL queries$5 a month
IBM Db2 plans
- FreeFree
- Performance$630 a month
- Db2 Database SaaS FreeFree
- Db2 AI CommunityFree
- Db2 Database SaaS Performance$630 a month
- Db2 AI AdvancedPriced on request
Pick Amazon Athena if…
Athena suits users exploring or querying data in S3 and other cloud or on-premises sources with SQL. It may also fit teams that need workload separation and cost tracking through workgroups.
Pick IBM Db2 if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.