Using Amazon Athena Federated Query
Unless your organization is special, you are storing data in a wide variety of storage types and you often select the storage type on a "fit for purpose" basis. In other words, you select graph databases when they make sense, relational databases when it's appropriate, and S3 object storage or Hadoop HDFS when it makes the most sense. As an example, if you are building a social network application, Amazon Neptune (which is a graph database) may be the best choice. Or, if you are building an application that requires a flexible schema, Amazon DynamoDB may be a solid choice. AWS offers many different types of persistence solutions, such as these:
- Relational database services
- Key-value database services
- Document database services
- In-memory database services
- Search database services
- Graph database services
- Time-series database services
- Ledger database services
- Plain object data stores (such as Amazon...