AWS Athena

Supported since 5.0.2.

Through the Athena (opens new window) connector, Ontop is able to construct VKGs on AWS Athena databases using the Simba Athena JDBC Driver (opens new window).

Limitations & Exceptions

WARNING

Athena does not provide information about integrity constraints. Make sure to provide this information in order to avoid very inefficient queries. We recommend using lenses for this purpose.

• The Simba Athena JDBC does not support the use of default databases when connecting to Athena.
• Accessing object fields with the "dot operator" is not supported (see below).

Database Connection

The following shows the content of a sample .properties file that can be used to connect Ontop to Athena:

jdbc.url = jdbc:awsathena://AwsRegion=eu-central-1;S3OutputLocation=s3://result-location
jdbc.user = user
jdbc.password = password
jdbc.driver = com.simba.athena.jdbc.Driver

Nested Type Support

Ontop implements explicit compatibility with the Athena array type ARRAY<T>. When used with the flatten lens, it is able to automatically infer the type of the result column.

The flatten lens cannot be used on arrays stored as JSON-encoded columns in the database. For such use cases, the column first has to be converted to an array type.

Struct Access

Individual MAP objects can be accessed by SQL expressions in the dialect's default way:

SELECT my_struct['my_attribute'] FROM ...

ROW objects, can also be accessed using the [key] operator. Please note, that in this case, key must be an integer index instead of the name of the field:

SELECT my_struct[1] FROM ...

WARNING

Accessing object fields using the "dot operator" is not supported. Please use the [] operator instead.