With the cloud wars heating up, Google and AWS tout two directly-competing serverless querying tools: Amazon Athena, an interactive query service that runs over Amazon S3; and Google BigQuery, a high-performance, decoupled database. In this document we will take a closer look at these two services, and compare their real-world performance executing a series of SQL queries against the same dataset.
The following article is based on a presentation given by Roy Hasson, Senior Business Development Manager at Amazon Web Services, as part of our recent joint webinar - Frictionless Data Lake ETL for Petabyte-scale Streaming Data. You can watch the full presentation and webinar for free right here.
