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Everytime I look at S3/Glue/Athena I can’t help but feeling like the Glue layer shouldn’t be necessary and it’s instead just part of athena’s ddl
by hipadev23 2y ago
Everytime I look at S3/Glue/Athena I can’t help but feeling like the Glue layer shouldn’t be necessary and it’s instead just part of athena’s ddl
- ianburrell 2y agoAthena is query engine and can use multiple catalogs. It forwards DDL queries to the catalog. Glue is the default catalog.
- mulmen 2y agoGlue catalogs can be used by other query engines as well. Separating schema from compute is the foundational concept behind a data lake.