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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Starting today, the Athena SQL engine uses a cost-based optimizer (CBO), a new feature that uses table and column statistics stored in the AWS Glue Data Catalog as part of the table’s metadata. By using these statistics, CBO improves query run plans and boosts the performance of queries run in Athena.

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JULY 22, 2019

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. It involved a lot of work with applied math, some depth in statistics and visualization, and also a lot of communication skills. The problems down in the mature bucket, those are optimizations, they aren’t showstoppers. I can point to the year 2001.

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Speed up queries with the cost-based optimizer in Amazon Athena

Data Science, Past & Future

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