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Amazon Athena vs Inbenta Search comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon Athena
Ranking in Search as a Service
6th
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Inbenta Search
Ranking in Search as a Service
14th
Average Rating
0.0
Number of Reviews
0
Ranking in other categories
Indexing and Search (21st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon Athena is 5.3%, down from 5.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Inbenta Search is 2.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Athena5.3%
Inbenta Search2.0%
Other92.7%
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YM
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Serverless analytics has reduced daily data query costs and supports accurate financial reporting
The best features Amazon Athena offers are its straightforward framework to perform ad hoc analysis on the data that we have. We use it primarily as our main query engine, so we are not using anything such as Snowflake or similar solutions. We essentially ingest the data into S3 buckets, and then we use Amazon Athena for querying the data. It is our main query platform on AWS. All of our queries, for transformations, are Athena-based queries that are orchestrated via Step Functions. We only pay for the amount of data that we scan. Since we operate on a relatively lower amount of data on a daily basis, we incur a very low cost on our querying. The pay-per-query pricing of Amazon Athena impacts my daily operations significantly. For other query engines, we pay for the query execution time, but in Amazon Athena, you only pay for the amount of data that you have scanned. Our queries primarily filter out the data. Since we operate on a daily basis, we are only concerned with today's data. When querying the data, we automatically put the filter to have the data in today's timestamp only. This way, we incur very low costs compared to other query engines. Our query scans are about 10 to 20 MBs, and despite performing 100 to 150 queries per day, this keeps our costs very manageable. Amazon Athena has positively impacted my organization by providing a completely serverless infrastructure. We have Step Functions, Lambda, and S3 buckets where we store our data. Our main infrastructure is serverless. We wanted a query engine that is less demanding in terms of setup efforts and cost-efficient, so we decided to go with Amazon Athena. It fulfills all our use cases, plus the ACID compliance that it brings, because we use Iceberg on top of Amazon Athena. This ensures our queries and data are consistent, durable, and that the queries are isolated in terms of execution. Athena's ACID compliance, especially with Iceberg, impacts our data consistency and reliability. We apply Iceberg with Parquet, which helps us compress the data to a very good volume. With the applied compression algorithms, we preserve our data consistency during parallel transformations. ACID compliance helps us achieve this, ensuring we do not compromise on our data and that our GDPR for the data is preserved.
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon Athena?
My experience with Amazon Athena regarding pricing, setup costs, and licensing is quite clear after more than three years of usage. I am part of my client's FinOps cloud team, assisting in reducing...
What needs improvement with Amazon Athena?
While implementing Amazon Athena, I observed an issue where, even after writing an exclusion pattern on the AWS Glue side, whenever the end user queries, it skips the exclusion pattern, overriding ...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Athena?
My main use case for Amazon Athena is serving a healthcare organization in the US that needed an interactive SQL editor to write complex queries and retrieve details instead of checking manually in...
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