Amazon Athena
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Jan 19, 2026first mention
Aug 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“My favourite is AWS Athena (backed by Trino).”
“Yes you can run this directly from S3 and it will create one big file”
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Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
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All comments 5
DuckDB out of the box may not be great. But you have DuckLake, Quack, and even DeepSeek made their own distributed DB based on DuckDB: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/smallpond
“My favourite is AWS Athena (backed by Trino).”
“Calling a SQL to streaming database tool Athena is bonkers bad naming.”
“Athena”
“Yes you can run this directly from S3 and it will create one big file”