Amazon Athena
5.9#16 in query engine software$0.30 usage-basedWebAPI
VisitAmazon Athena vs PrestoDB
What both publish
| Fact | Amazon Athena | PrestoDB |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL. | Presto is a distributed SQL query engine designed to query large data sets across heterogeneous data sources. |
Amazon Athena plans
- SQL queries with Capacity Reservations$0.30 a month
- Apache Spark$0.35 a month
- SQL queries$5 a month
PrestoDB plans
- PrestoDBFree
- Presto open-source distributionFree
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 PrestoDB if…
PrestoDB suits teams that need to query large datasets across different systems and can manage a self-hosted deployment. It may not fit teams looking for the full feature set of a standard database.