Amazon Athena vs Apache Hive vs Apache Spark

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    Use SQL to analyze CSV files
  • 8
    Glue crawlers gives easy Data catalogue
  • 7
    Cheap
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    Query all my data without running servers 24x7
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    No data base servers yay
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    Easy integration with QuickSight
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    Query and analyse CSV,parquet,json files in sql
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    Also glue and athena use same data catalog
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    No configuration required
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    Ad hoc checks on data made easy
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      Open-source
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      Fast and Flexible
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      One platform for every big data problem
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      Great for distributed SQL like applications
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      Easy to install and to use
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      Works well for most Datascience usecases
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      Interactive Query
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      Machine learning libratimery, Streaming in real
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      In memory Computation

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        What is Amazon Athena?

        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.

        What is Apache Hive?

        Hive facilitates reading, writing, and managing large datasets residing in distributed storage using SQL. Structure can be projected onto data already in storage.

        What is Apache Spark?

        Spark is a fast and general processing engine compatible with Hadoop data. It can run in Hadoop clusters through YARN or Spark's standalone mode, and it can process data in HDFS, HBase, Cassandra, Hive, and any Hadoop InputFormat. It is designed to perform both batch processing (similar to MapReduce) and new workloads like streaming, interactive queries, and machine learning.

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        What are some alternatives to Amazon Athena, Apache Hive, and Apache Spark?
        Presto
        Distributed SQL Query Engine for Big Data
        Amazon Redshift Spectrum
        With Redshift Spectrum, you can extend the analytic power of Amazon Redshift beyond data stored on local disks in your data warehouse to query vast amounts of unstructured data in your Amazon S3 “data lake” -- without having to load or transform any data.
        Amazon Redshift
        It is optimized for data sets ranging from a few hundred gigabytes to a petabyte or more and costs less than $1,000 per terabyte per year, a tenth the cost of most traditional data warehousing solutions.
        Cassandra
        Partitioning means that Cassandra can distribute your data across multiple machines in an application-transparent matter. Cassandra will automatically repartition as machines are added and removed from the cluster. Row store means that like relational databases, Cassandra organizes data by rows and columns. The Cassandra Query Language (CQL) is a close relative of SQL.
        Spectrum
        The community platform for the future.
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