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AWS Lake Formation vs Altinity.Cloud comparison

 

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Altinity.Cloud
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
2.2
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
AWS Lake Formation
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
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Featured Reviews

Harsh Kaneria - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE-2 at a tech vendor with 1-10 employees
Managed analytics has freed our engineers to focus on real-time dashboards and deeper insights
Their best features include fully managed ClickHouse, their ClickHouse expertise, their customer support team, and the flexible deployment options they offer. Scaling is easier, and they provide multi-cloud support, allowing us to deploy on AWS, GCP, or Azure in any region. The biggest benefit and major difference created for our team comes from using their fully managed ClickHouse infrastructure, which eliminates the need to manage cluster provisioning, upgrades, backups, and monitoring ourselves. As a result, our team spends more time building analytics and dashboards while benefiting from a reliable, high-performance database with minimal operational overhead. Another valuable feature worth mentioning about Altinity.Cloud is their ClickHouse expertise; they are very skilled in how to optimize and how well we can extract performance from ClickHouse. Altinity.Cloud has had a positive impact on our organization by simplifying the management of our analytics infrastructure. It has reduced the operational effort required to run ClickHouse, improved the query performance for large data sets, and enabled our team to deliver dashboards and analytics faster. As a result, our engineers spend less time on database maintenance and more time building features and analyzing business data and their outcomes. Some of the measurements we have seen from using Altinity.Cloud include fifty to sixty percent less time spent on database administration. We do not need to handle provisioning, ClickHouse version upgrades, backups, or monitoring; those are all managed by Altinity. Additional outcomes include significantly faster analytics queries, faster deployment of the analytics environment, lower operational costs, and higher engineering productivity.
Ciro Baldim Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Analytics Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.
Has improved data governance by enabling clear ownership and structured access across teams
In my company, Itaú, we don't utilize all AWS offerings due to rigorous security measures. We operate approximately six to eight months behind other available services. I'm uncertain if gaps exist because of this limitation, though the system functions effectively for us. AWS Lake Formation offers column-level access control for databases, but we haven't implemented this feature either because it hasn't been approved by our compliance, governance, or security areas. In our current setup, everyone from my business unit uses the same consumer account. When access is requested for a table, everyone using that business unit account receives access. This could present a security concern, though it benefits new team members who automatically receive all necessary access permissions. However, I struggle to identify specific improvements needed in AWS Lake Formation.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The best features Altinity.Cloud offers include that it is a fully managed database as a service, it is also fully open source so it is very good to access, there are flexible deployments, there is easy integration with some third-party tools such as Kafka, and it also has very good monitoring tools."
"Altinity.Cloud has had a positive impact on our organization by simplifying the management of our analytics infrastructure, reducing the operational effort required to run ClickHouse, improving the query performance for large data sets, and enabling our team to deliver dashboards and analytics faster so our engineers spend less time on database maintenance and more time building features and analyzing business data and their outcomes."
"AWS Lake Formation lets you see all your data and tables on one screen."
"The most valuable features of AWS Lake Formation were the access model itself, as it allows implementation of filters, Blueprints, and row-level and column-level security to mask data that shouldn't be accessed by certain entities, enabling granular control without exposing PII data."
"A favorite feature of AWS Lake Formation is that it provides us with visibility into who has access to a particular table or database in Glue."
"We have observed measurable benefits in terms of cost savings, time savings, resource savings, and efficiency improvements in our workflows."
"Every solution has its pros and cons, however, for our purposes, this solution works quite well for us."
"We use this to reduce latency from minutes to seconds, as we aim for real-time visibility into patient healthcare monitoring."
"We use AWS Lake Formation typically for the data warehouse."
"It is seamlessly integrated within the AWS ecosystem, making it straightforward to manage access patterns for AWS-native services."
 

Cons

"I have not seen a return on investment."
"Some of the areas we found for improving Altinity.Cloud include simpler pricing with better costs as the cluster scales and a more intuitive management UI for new ClickHouse users."
"In our experience what could be improved are not the support, performance or monitoring, but at a managerial level, the very expensive professional services of AWS. This could be an area of improvement for them. It's too expensive to acquire their support."
"The solution could make improvements around orchestration and doing some automation stuff on AWS front automation. It would be useful if we could use automation to build images and use hardened images which are CIS compliant."
"AWS Lake Formation might not be easy to learn initially, especially for technical staff, due to various underlying options."
"The UI of AWS Lake Formation is not very responsive."
"In our current setup, everyone from my business unit uses the same consumer account. When access is requested for a table, everyone using that business unit account receives access. This could present a security concern, though it benefits new team members who automatically receive all necessary access permissions."
"I haven't seen any measurable benefits from using AWS Lake Formation, such as time saving, resource saving, or efficiency improvements."
"I think AWS Lake Formation could improve by enforcing the least privilege by design, moving from ad hoc grants to role-based access controls."
"Rather than creating an additional hundred tools, optimizing a tool to have a centralized location to do governance would be beneficial."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"AWS Lake Formation is a bit expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
47%
Consumer Goods Company
15%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Outsourcing Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
21%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Construction Company
6%
Computer Software Company
6%
 

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Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business3
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise15
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Altinity.Cloud?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that everything is good. The pricing is very decent, and the setup is very good as I mentioned, with a very good installation, and the thing...
What needs improvement with Altinity.Cloud?
As for how Altinity.Cloud can be improved, I would say there are no such improvements needed. Everything is good as far as I have tested, and everything is working fine.If I had to pick one area wh...
What is your primary use case for Altinity.Cloud?
Altinity.Cloud is basically a cloud-hosted database service that I have tested, and I normally use it for my RDS and MySQL database deployment.I could give a quick specific example of how I've used...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for AWS Lake Formation?
I don't understand much about the pricing of AWS Lake Formation, but I know how to search for the cost of Glue jobs, and I use the calculator in Amazon. I use a tool to preview the cost based on th...
What needs improvement with AWS Lake Formation?
Regarding areas of AWS Lake Formation that could be improved or enhanced, I prefer not to answer, mainly because I do not believe that I would be the most valuable person to ask, as I have not used...
What is your primary use case for AWS Lake Formation?
My usual use cases for AWS Lake Formation involved securing and governing the data resources that we configured in AWS, but we did not use the analytics or machine learning capabilities specificall...
 

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