Amazon Athena vs Apache Pinot
| Amazon Athena | Apache Pinot | |
|---|---|---|
| Free plan | No | Yes |
| Free trial | No | No |
| Paid from | $0.30/mo | Free |
| Open source | No | No |
| Platforms | api, Web | api, self-hosted, Web |
| Free plan | No | — |
| Deployment | cloud | self_hosted |
| Query language | sql | sql |
| Row-level security | Yes | Yes |
| Data source coverage | object storage, relational databases, non-relational databases, cloud data stores, on-premises data stores, custom data sources | Streaming: Kafka, Pulsar, Kinesis; batch: Hadoop, Spark, Amazon S3, Azure ADLS, Google Cloud Storage |
| Real-time ingestion | — | Yes |
| Embedded analytics | — | Yes |
Both are listed in Best OLAP Software. On Samsung Mobile US Press, Apache Pinot scores higher on our published basis.