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In my experience Athena on AWS beats Spark by an order of magnitude in terms of performance and price. Without the annoyance of having to start/stop/run a clust
by marcinzm 6y ago
In my experience Athena on AWS beats Spark by an order of magnitude in terms of performance and price. Without the annoyance of having to start/stop/run a cluster. Snowflake is even faster than that since its storage is more optimized.
- willvarfar 6y agoAnd Athena is an old fork of Presto, provided as a service; modern Presto e.g. Starburst is much faster than Athena, and cheaper if you use it much as Athena has usage fees not hosting fees.