Amazon Athena vs Solr comparison

"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."

"​Sharding data, Faceting, Hit Highlighting, parent-child Block Join and Grouping, and multi-mode platform are all valuable features."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to perform a natural language search."

"It has improved our search ranking, relevancy, search performance, and user retention."

"One of the best aspects of the solution is the indexing. It's already indexed to all the fields in the category. We don't need to spend so much extra effort to do the indexing. It's great."

"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."

"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."

"The solution should include a better API for query services."

"You have to build out the metadata yourself because of the nature of the cloud."

"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."

"The performance for this solution, in terms of queries, could be improved."

"SolrCloud stability, indexing and commit speed, and real-time Indexing need improvement."

"Encountered issues with both master-slave and SolrCloud. Indexing and serving traffic from same collection has very poor performance. Some components are slow for searching."

"With increased sharding, performance degrades. Merger, when present, is a bottle-neck. Peer-to-peer sync has issues in SolrCloud when index is incrementally updated."

"It does take a little bit of effort to use and understand the solution. It would help us a lot if the solution offered up more documentation or tutorials to help with training or troubleshooting."

"The solution operates on a serverless model so you only pay for data that you consume."

"It doesn't cost much if you are already part of the AWS ecosystem."

"Athena is very inexpensive for being a cloud tool."

"I am happy with what they are charging and how they charge it, especially because they charge you per query, and not per series."

"The only costs in addition to the standard licensing fees are related to the hardware, depending on whether it is cloud-based, or on-premise."