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Amazon Athena vs Amazon Elasticsearch Service comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 8, 2024
 

Categories and Ranking

Amazon Athena
Ranking in Search as a Service
4th
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Amazon Elasticsearch Service
Ranking in Search as a Service
3rd
Average Rating
8.2
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon Athena is 13.6%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Amazon Elasticsearch Service is 13.2%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Manilal Kasera - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 22, 2022
A great AWS application that is easy to set up and simple to expand
If you compare it with Palantir, if you have some data and you want to quickly have a look at it, then that feature is not available in Amazon Cloud. We'd like it better if, for example, when you have some data, you can easily query it and you can easily read it at a glance. We'd like it to just be almost like a drag-and-drop situation. In Amazon Cloud, you actually have first to upload the data into S3. For that, you have to create a bucket. Now you have to create a Glue service, which will get you the schema. Then that schema would create basically a database and a table. After that, you have to go to Athena to query the data. It's a three-step process in Amazon Cloud. In Palantir, you just have to drag and drop.
Beverly R. Jamison - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 8, 2023
Easy to use, efficient, and straightforward installation
Amazon Elasticsearch is a search engine. We set up the index from where the content was and moved the content in to get it indexed. We provided the end user with a fairly full-featured search, and they were included in being able to write their own bullion The most valuable features of Amazon…

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform."
"Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth."
"In case there is a failure, Elastic manages everything well, and there no major downtime."
"The initial set up is very easy...We really appreciate Amazon!"
"It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs."
"They have the good documentation in the help text and that is the reason the Amazon is the perfect solution in the current market."
"It's a good log management platform. In terms of infrastructure management, it's good."
"The stability of the product is good."
"The most valuable features of Amazon Elasticsearch are ease of use, native JSON, and efficiency. Additionally, handles many use cases and search grammar was useful."
"Regarding valuable features of the solution, we found with the process, which we have used in both cases where we used the solution that while you're seeing the streaming of data, you can analyze in the initial phase what sort of data you are streaming and whether it is valuable."
 

Cons

"I think it would be better if the product were more mature. It's still a young product compared to Power BI or Qlik. I find that development is a bit difficult, but it might be because I'm used to other tools. The dashboarding capabilities could be better. The reporting and statement generation could be better. I couldn't technically initiate picture-perfect reporting, for example, to send out statements every month for banking customers."
"One improvement I can suggest is that Athena needs to work better with third-parties. For example, the process of querying a Microsoft SQL warehouse could be improved."
"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud."
"If you compare it with Palantir, if you have some data and you want to quickly have a look at it, then that feature is not available in Amazon Cloud."
"The solution should include a better API for query services."
"One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become problematic."
"I would say that, basically, the configuration part is an area with a shortcoming...Some upgradation is required on the configuration side so that we can get to use it."
"The configuration should be more straightforward because we had to select a lot of things."
"I want to see a new feature in Amazon Elasticsearch Service that allows users to create default filters for filtered levels."
"Amazon Elasticsearch can improve the bullion in the near search and the ease of integration with Kibana. Additionally, there could be more flexibility in the configuration and documentation."
"There is a problem with the database. Amazon only provides the hosting to run our applications bias, but there is no option to manage the database within the Elasticsearch product."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It doesn't cost much if you are already part of the AWS ecosystem."
"The solution operates on a serverless model so you only pay for data that you consume."
"Athena is very inexpensive for being a cloud tool."
"I am happy with what they are charging and how they charge it, especially because they charge you per query, and not per series."
"You only pay for what you use."
"The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say."
"There is a community edition available and the price of the commercial offering is reasonable."
"Compared to other cloud platforms, it is manageable and not very expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
18%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
19%
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Government
8%
 

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon Athena?
Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products.
What needs improvement with Amazon Athena?
You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud.
What do you like most about Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
It enables us to efficiently search and retrieve our event data, offering us a versatile approach to locate specific information within these logs.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
The solution is not expensive, but priced averagely, I will say. Regarding the pricing part based on the use cases, we used to sometimes see or do some of the costing parts also in that case. Depar...
What needs improvement with Amazon Elasticsearch Service?
One glaring issue was with our mapping configuration as the system accepted the data we posted, but after a few months, when we attempted complex queries, we realized the date formatting had become...
 

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Sample Customers

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