6. Does Athena support other BI Tools and SQL Clients?
Yes. Amazon Athena comes with an ODBC and JDBC driver that you can use with other business intelligence tools and SQL clients.
7. How do I use the Query Federation SDK?
You can use the Query Federation SDK to create your own connector to use when querying a data source using Athena. Template implementations are provided for each of the connectors. You can use the templates as baseline.
8. What connectors are available for Athena federated query?
Athena has open sourced data source connectors to Apache HBase, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch Metrics. Athena also has a generic JDBC connector that connect to any JDBC-compliant data source and an AWS Configuration Management Database (CMDB) connector that allows customers to run queries on AWS resource metadata.
9. How to lower my costs for AWS Athena?
You can save 30%-90% on your query costs and get better performance by compressing, partitioning, and converting your data into columnar formats. Each of these operations reduces the amount of data Amazon Athena needs to scan to execute a query. Amazon Athena supports Apache Parquet and ORC, two of the most popular open-source columnar formats. You can see the amount of data scanned per query, on the Athena console.
10. Does Amazon Athena charge me for failed queries?
No, you are not charged for failed queries.
