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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
10
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 (22nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Search as a Service category, the mindshare of Amazon Athena is 5.0%, down from 7.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Inbenta Search is 1.7%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Search as a Service Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon Athena5.0%
Inbenta Search1.7%
Other93.3%
Search as a Service
 

Featured Reviews

Ciro Baldim Guerra - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr Analytics Engineer at Itau Unibanco S.A.
Have struggled with exporting complex data and have disabled code suggestions due to inefficiency
I think there is room for improvement in Amazon Athena, and the first thing I will put is the data output. I use Python to query in Amazon Athena, and it's very complex and difficult just to save Amazon Athena results as an Excel file. The only option is copying the data, but sometimes if it exceeds 100 lines, if you copy and paste in Excel, it's very bad. You can't copy above 100 lines. The other option is downloading a CSV file, but the CSV file is not UTF-8 Unicode. Here in Brazil, we speak Portuguese, and there are a lot of special characters in the words and even names, and everything gets garbled when you put it in a CSV. You have to decode, encode, and there are a lot of problems. It could easily save as an Excel file since there are a lot of engines to help with it, so an XLSX file extension could be this way. Another point I would mention is the word completion. When I'm coding and making statements and queries, Amazon Athena tries to help me write the code, and that's very problematic. Sometimes I'm using some tables that I use every day, and Amazon Athena doesn't get the tables I'm using and suggests very improbable data. I have access to more than 30 databases and hundreds of tables. So, I turn it off, I disable the word completion because when I'm coding, the word completion makes the coding slower. It's very difficult, and every time I have to press escape to skip the completion. It's very ineffective, so I disable it because in other applications it functions very well, such as VS Code.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Computer Software Company
8%
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Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise3
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Amazon Athena?
Amazon Athena can be improved, especially when working with S3 tables, which is a caveat for us. It does not work very well with Amazon Athena, as we have to do multiple settings in terms of provid...
What is your primary use case for Amazon Athena?
My main use case for Amazon Athena is querying data that sits in S3 buckets. Currently, I am working for an aviation client for which we receive data on a daily basis. We take this data from a sour...
What advice do you have for others considering Amazon Athena?
Regarding Amazon Athena's AI capabilities, we do not utilize them. However, data governance is ensured, and security is adequate since we operate within the VPC. ACID compliance helps preserve GDPR...
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