Amazon Athena

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Runs on api, Web. Paid plans from $0.30/mo.

Amazon Athena is ranked #22 of 31 in OLAP software on The Geeks Club. It runs on API, Web. There is no free plan. Paid plans start at $0.30/mo.

Amazon Athena plans and pricing

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SQL queries with Capacity Reservations $0.30/mo $0.30 per DPU-hour; usage-based Capacity-based pricing; S3 and other service charges may apply separately aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026

Apache Spark $0.35/mo $0.35 per DPU-hour; usage-based S3 charges for storing and reading data and results apply separately aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026

SQL queries $5/mo $5 per TB of data scanned; usage-based S3, Glue Data Catalog, and Lambda charges may apply separately aws.amazon.com · 3 Oct 2026

Compared on OLAP software

Free plan: No
Deployment: cloud
Query language: sql
Row-level security: Yes
Data source coverage: object storage, relational databases, non-relational databases, cloud data stores, on-premises data stores, custom data sources

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The record

Purpose: Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service for analyzing data in Amazon S3 with standard SQL.
Scale: Athena automatically scales and runs queries in parallel, including on large datasets and complex queries.
SQL engine: Athena for SQL is based on Trino and Presto and supports ANSI SQL features including large joins, window functions, and arrays.
Data formats: Supported formats include CSV, JSON, ORC, Avro, and Parquet.
Query access: Athena queries can be run from its console, API, CLI, AWS SDK, and supported BI and SQL development applications using JDBC or ODBC drivers.
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.
Machine learning: Athena SQL queries can invoke machine-learning models deployed on Amazon SageMaker for inference.
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.
Compliance: AWS documentation says third-party auditors assess security and compliance under AWS programs including SOC, PCI, and FedRAMP; customer compliance responsibility depends on their data and obligations.
Workgroups: Workgroups can separate users, teams, applications, or workloads, set per-query or group data processing limits, and track costs.
Additional charges: S3 storage, requests, and data transfer are billed at standard S3 rates, and use of the AWS Glue Data Catalog incurs its standard rates.
Intended use: AWS describes Athena as suited to interactive SQL queries and data exploration across S3, other clouds, and on-premises sources.
Maker: Amazon.com, Inc. was incorporated in 1994 and lists its principal corporate offices in Seattle, Washington.
Price from: $0.30/mo

Where it ranks on The Geeks Club

Best OLAP Software in 2026#22 of 31
Best Query Engine Software in 2026#18 of 25

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aws.amazon.com/athena/· checked 3 Oct 2026
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docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/security-compliance-va· checked 3 Oct 2026
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aws.amazon.com/athena/faqs/· checked 3 Oct 2026
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