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scoot_718 on May 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: AWS services to avoid

Athena is actively worse than hosting your own Hive on EC2. It'll timeout queries and give you no results beyond charging you. Given the variable performance of S3, that's terrible.

aeyes on May 10, 2020 [–]

Wait? Why are you comparing Athena to Hive? Athena is basically managed Presto.

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