Amazon Athena

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Amazon Athena is an query service against data in Amazon S3.

Athena query engine is based on hive. See Langauge reference

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Example

An external table based on json

CREATE EXTERNAL TABLE IF NOT EXISTS wildrydes (
       Name string,
       StatusTime timestamp,
       Latitude float,
       Longitude float,
       Distance float,
       HealthPoints int,
       MagicPoints int
     )
     ROW FORMAT SERDE 'org.apache.hive.hcatalog.data.JsonSerDe'
     LOCATION 's3://YOUR_BUCKET_NAME_HERE/';

Documentation / Reference

• https://aws.amazon.com/athena/