G2 Vendor Directory

Amazon Athena vs. SimpleDB

A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.

MetricAmazon Athena

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

SimpleDB

by Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Overall rating4.44.1
Review count17351
Ease of use9.08.7
Ease of setup9.28.7
Quality of support8.88.8
Meets requirements8.79.2
NPS61.11111142.857143
Small Business22.0%35.3%
Mid-Market27.2%25.5%
Enterprise50.9%39.2%
Total page views18132
Total LLM citations4472

Amazon Athena

Amazon Athena is a serverless, interactive query service that enables users to analyze large datasets directly in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. With no infrastructure to manage, Athena allows for quick, ad-hoc querying without the need for complex ETL processes. It automatically scales to execute queries in parallel, delivering fast results even for complex queries and large datasets. Key Features and Functionality: - Serverless Architecture: Athena requires no server management, automatically handling infrastructure scaling and maintenance.

Pros

  • Querying
  • Big Data Handling
  • Analytics
  • Ease of Use
  • Data Analysis
  • Features

SimpleDB

SimpleDB is a highly available and flexible non-relational data store that offloads the work of database administration.

Pros

  • Innovation
  • Customer Support
  • Cloud Storage
  • Ease of Use
  • Speed
  • Features