While I'm not attending Reinvent, I'm really looking forward to catching ANT307 on Youtube after the fact. Managing a Presto cluster is no fun, but the last time I evaluated Athena as a replacement, it had a bunch of undocumented limitations that kept it from being a real alternative. Fingers crossed that's changed!
The main limitation I've found with Athena is that it's still based on Presto 0.172 (from April 2017) so is missing a bunch of functions and enhancements from subsequent releases. I've also found that it's not too hard to run into scalability issues where very large queries will intermittently fail due to lack of resources.
On the other hand it is incredibly simple to set up and much easier than running a standalone Presto cluster, and a lot cheaper than a decent Redshift cluster!
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Thanks for putting this together!
While I'm not attending Reinvent, I'm really looking forward to catching ANT307 on Youtube after the fact. Managing a Presto cluster is no fun, but the last time I evaluated Athena as a replacement, it had a bunch of undocumented limitations that kept it from being a real alternative. Fingers crossed that's changed!
There are so many sessions on offer I'm really glad they are putting them up on YouTube as well.
Athena is top of my list to take a second look at it. I've given it a try in tutorials but am curious to see how things have changed in the last year.
The main limitation I've found with Athena is that it's still based on Presto 0.172 (from April 2017) so is missing a bunch of functions and enhancements from subsequent releases. I've also found that it's not too hard to run into scalability issues where very large queries will intermittently fail due to lack of resources.
On the other hand it is incredibly simple to set up and much easier than running a standalone Presto cluster, and a lot cheaper than a decent Redshift cluster!