We performed a comparison between Amazon Athena and Amazon Kendra based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Elastic, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and others in Search as a Service."You can perform SQL queries in S3 using Athena."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to partition your databases. I also like the federal query functionality, for cases when you have to query outside your S3 storage, or even completely outside of the AWS platform."
"Athena has a really good UI and is very compatible with on-prem products."
"The solution is very easy to use and integrations are very smooth."
"Amazon Athena is very stable. I never had any issues with it. The dashboarding tool is okay."
"Provides flexibility to tune the relevance and ranking of results."
"We have good use cases where stability is everything. So it's a stable solution."
"One improvement I can suggest is that Athena needs to work better with third-parties. For example, the process of querying a Microsoft SQL warehouse could be improved."
"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud."
"I think it would be better if the product were more mature. It's still a young product compared to Power BI or Qlik. I find that development is a bit difficult, but it might be because I'm used to other tools. The dashboarding capabilities could be better. The reporting and statement generation could be better. I couldn't technically initiate picture-perfect reporting, for example, to send out statements every month for banking customers."
"The solution should include a better API for query services."
"If you compare it with Palantir, if you have some data and you want to quickly have a look at it, then that feature is not available in Amazon Cloud."
"I would like to use Spark or Python-based queries in Athena."
"The time it takes for indexing documents could be reduced."
"There are some token limits."
Amazon Athena is ranked 4th in Search as a Service with 6 reviews while Amazon Kendra is ranked 2nd in Search as a Service with 2 reviews. Amazon Athena is rated 7.6, while Amazon Kendra is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Amazon Athena writes "A great AWS application that is easy to set up and simple to expand". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Amazon Kendra writes "Kendra has a nice AI built-in, enhancing the search experience and highly stable solution". Amazon Athena is most compared with Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Elastic Search, Azure Search and Solr, whereas Amazon Kendra is most compared with Azure Search, Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon AWS CloudSearch, Elastic Search and Algolia.
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