AWS Athena catalog other than Glue - amazon-web-services

It's known that AWS Athena comes integrated with AWS Glue for data catalog. Is there any way to configure Athena to use a different catalog e.g. to point to a different Hive metastore (e.g. on EC2 instances) managed by user?

Athena integration with a Hive Metastore is a new feature, now available in preview mode. You can find the details of how to use this feature in the documentation.

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Connect Redshift Spectrum/ AWS EMR with Hudi directly or via AWS Glue Data Catalog

I'm trying to understand how to properly connect Redshift Spectrum with Hudi data.
Looks like I can directly create Redshift external table for data managed in Apache Hudi like it is described by the following documentation https://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/c-spectrum-external-tables.html The other way is to integrate Hudi with AWS Glue Data Catalog like it is mentioned here https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-hudi-how-it-works.html and then access Hudi tables with Redshift Spectrum via AWS Glue Data Catalog.
The same needs I have for AWS EMR for Apache Spark. Looks like I may use Hudi directly from EMR or via AWS Glue Data Catalog.
Right now, I don't understand what way to choose. Could you please advise what is the benefit to use Hudi via AWS Glue Data Catalog, or do I need to use it directly from Redshift Spectrum and AWS EMR ?
Given that with Spark on EMR you need a catalog, Hive metastore if you will, then using the AWS Glue Catalog is an option.
If you elect to use Glue as metastore then use that as the source for all data. Unless errors are evident in which case use the Hudi api for Spark.

Can we access AWS Glue Tables using jdbc?

I need to access some tables which are there in AWS Glue which i am using as a metastore. I wanted to know if Glue provides any jdbc endpoint to connect to it just like HIVE does.
I understand that it is possible to read data into AWS glue from other databases like MYSQL, Oracle etc using JDBC but my requirement is opposite and i have to read from AWS glue using JDBC. Please help if it is possible as I could not find a reference for this.
For accessing the data from glue catalog, follow these steps:
Run the crawler and update the table in glue catalog.
To access these tables using JDBC or ODBC endpoint, you need athena.
Download the driver from this link.
Read the docs for creating the url according to your region here
Also go through this documentation for additional properties
Hope it helps

Setting up AWS Glue to crawl Qubole

Currently I work with Qubole to access Hive data. I've added metadata from several databases, and want to add all the Hive metadata to AWS Glue. Is this possible? Any help is appreciated.
Yes you can add all the metadata from Qubole to AWS Glue catalog, but Glue crawler doesn't support Qubole as source.
You can use AWS Glue Sync Agent to synchronize metadata changes from Hive metastore in Qubole to AWS Glue Data Catalog.Refer to this which talks about more on how to achieve.

Using MySQL Aurora as source in Athena

I would like to use a few Aurora(MySQL) tables as source when creating external tables on AWS Athena. Because, those tables are mutable and gets updated often. I see Hive and Presto support this by using org.apache.hadoop.hive.jdbc.storagehandler.JdbcStorageHandler. Is there an equivalent of any such feature in AWS Athena?
Amazon Athena is dedicated to running interactive ad hoc SQL queries against data on Amazon S3, the mentioned feature isn't supported yet.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/supported-format.html
You have two solutions in this situation:
1) You can use Glue or EMR service.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/console-connections.html
2) You can export the data from Aurora to S3 and then you can use Athena.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/AuroraMySQL.Integrating.SaveIntoS3.html

How to connect AWS Athena to an exists Hive Metastore

I need to integrate AWS Athena service with an exists Hive Metastore (not AWS Glue).
Can you please let me know how can I connect Athena to Hive Metastore.
Athena works only with its own metastore or the related AWS Glue metastore. It will not work with an external metastore.
However, you can set up multiple tables or databases on the same underlying S3 storage. So if you wrote data to S3 using an external metastore, you could query those files with Athena, after setting up an appropriate database and table definition in Athena's metastore.
Amazon Athena just released a new feature (in preview now) that allows you to connect Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. You can see the announcement here. Detailed steps to add the Hive Metastore connector are available in the Athena documentation.
Another way is to export the hive metadata to a file using the command
command="hive -f "+schema+"_tables.hql -S >> "+schema+".output"
where schema= to be exported and import the table definitions to Athena using groovy in python.
Instructions to set up groovy can be found in the link
https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-big-data-blog/tree/master/aws-blog-athena-importing-hive-metastores