Chapter 11: Ad Hoc Queries with Amazon Athena
In Chapter 8, Identifying and Enabling Varied Data Consumers, we explored a variety of data consumers. Now, we will start examining the AWS services that some of these different data consumers may want to use, starting with those that need to use SQL to run ad hoc queries on data in the data lake.
SQL syntax is widely used for querying data in a variety of databases, and it is a skill that is easy to find. As a result, there is significant demand from various data consumers for the ability to query data that is in the data lake using SQL, without having to first move the data into a dedicated traditional database.
Amazon Athena is a serverless, fully managed service that lets you use SQL to directly ...
Get Data Engineering with AWS now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
