Amazon Athena Connections

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Feature Availability: This feature is available in the following editions:

Trifacta® Enterprise Edition
Trifacta Professional Edition
Trifacta Premium

Amazon Athena is a service that enables a data analyst to perform interactive queries in the AWS public cloud on data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) For more information, see https://aws.amazon.com/athena/ .

Early Preview connection: This connection is in early preview. It is read-only and available only in SaaS product editions. For more information on early previews, see Early Preview Connection Types.

Limitations and Requirements

NOTE: During normal selection or import of an entire table, you may encounter an error indicating a problem with a specific column. Since some tables require filtering based on a particular column, data from them can only be ingested using custom SQL statements. In this case, the problematic column can be used as a filter in the WHERE clause of a custom SQL statement to ingest the table.

For more information, please consult the CData driver documentation for the specific table.
For more information on using custom SQL, see Create Dataset with SQL.

Supports authentication using AWS key and secret.

Create Connection

via Trifacta application

When you create the connection, please review the following properties and specify them accordingly:

Connection Property	Description
AWS Region	The hosting region for your Amazon Web Services resources. For more information, see http://cdn.cdata.com/help/FKF/jdbc/RSBAmazonAthena_p_AWSRegion.htm
S3 Staging Directory	Specifies the location in your S3 bucket where Amazon Athena can store the results of a query.
Database	The name of the Amazon Athena database.
Connect String Options	The following are the connect string options passed to the JDBC driver by default: Timeout=0;CleanQueryResults=true; `Timeout` - This value sets the connection timeout in seconds. Setting this value to `0` disables timeouts. `CleanQueryResults` - The results of every query that runs on Amazon Athena is stored in the S3 staging directory. Setting `CleanQueryResults` to `true` clears the query results from the S3 staging directory after ingestion.
Access Key ID	AWS account access key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page.
Secret access key	AWS account secret key. This value is accessible from your AWS security credentials page.
Default Column Data Type Inference	Leave this value as `Enabled`.

For more information, see the driver documentation http://cdn.cdata.com/help/FKF/jdbc/default.htm.

via API

Depending on your product edition, you can create connections of this type. Key information:

"vendor": "amazon_athena",
"vendorName": "Amazon Athena",
"type": "jdbc"

For more information, see

Trifacta API Reference docs: Enterprise | Professional | Premium

Data Type Conversions