#Amazon 's #Athena data engine brings interactive #SQL queries to S3. It's based on an #opensource framework that #Teradata and others also employ. #AWS
As it tries to extend its cloud computing lead, Amazon Web Services continues to fill out its data infrastructure -- this time with a new query service.
Athena, a data engine that performs SQL queries on data inside Amazon Simple Storage Service, or S3, is the latest addition to an ever-growing cloud data lineup. Along with some competitive packages, the software heralds more interactive querying of data on cloud.
The pricing for Athena is simple: $5 per terabyte of data scanned in a query. Such pay-by-query pricing may become the norm on the cloud. #Google, for example, has stated pricing of $5 per terabyte for its BigQuery analytics data warehouse service.
Athena works on data in place in S3, including CSV, JSON ORC and Parquet formats. It is "serverless," existing only at runtime as a service and not requiring long-running infrastructure or ongoing management, according to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Because it has little footprint, Athena's work could be described as spin-ups -- or transient jobs. It's there only when needed.
"With Athena, users will pay only for the queries, rather than for the underlying infrastructure or data integration services," said Matt Aslett, a research director at 451 Research.
Aslett cited potential advantages to querying data in cloud storage, in comparison with querying data stored in Hadoop cloud services or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud. These advantages include a lower cost for storing data in S3 and ease of scaling.
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