Presto-like CLI tool for AWS Athena. The alternative is using the AWS CLI Athena sub-commands.
A recent version of the aws CLI must be available on the PATH.
To install using pip run:
$ pip install athena-cli
Or, clone the GitHub repo and run:
$ python setup.py install
Only required configuration is AWS credentials.
$ athena --help
usage: athena [--debug] [--execute <statement>] [--output-format <format>] [--schema <schema>]
[--profile <profile>] [--region <region>] [--s3-bucket <bucket>]
[--server-side-encryption] [--version]
Athena interactive console
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--debug enable debug mode
--execute STATEMENT execute statement in batch mode
--output-format FORMAT
output format for batch mode [ALIGNED, VERTICAL, CSV,
TSV, CSV_HEADER, TSV_HEADER, NULL]
--schema SCHEMA, --database SCHEMA, --db SCHEMA
default schema
--profile PROFILE AWS profile
--region REGION AWS region
--s3-bucket BUCKET, --bucket BUCKET
AWS S3 bucket for query results
--server-side-encryption, --encryption
Use server-side-encryption for query results
--version show version info and exit
athena> help
Supported commands:
QUIT
SELECT
ALTER DATABASE <schema>
ALTER TABLE <table>
CREATE DATABASE <schema>
CREATE TABLE <table>
DESCRIBE <table>
DROP DATABASE <schema>
DROP TABLE <table>
MSCK REPAIR TABLE <table>
SHOW COLUMNS FROM <table>
SHOW CREATE TABLE <table>
SHOW DATABASES [LIKE <pattern>]
SHOW PARTITIONS <table>
SHOW TABLES [IN <schema>] [<pattern>]
SHOW TBLPROPERTIES <table>
USE [<catalog>.]<schema>
VALUES row [, ...]
See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/language-reference.html
athena> use sampledb;
athena:sampledb> show tables;
tab_name
------------
elb_logs
(1 rows)
Query deb156b5-293e-472d-8897-5ee195b06b11, SUCCEEDED
https://eu-west-1.console.aws.amazon.com/athena/home?force®ion=eu-west-1#query/history/deb156b5-293e-472d-8897-5ee195b06b11
Time: 0:00:00, CPU Time: 474ms total, Data Scanned: 0.00B, Cost: $0.00
Use the --debug option when launching the athena CLI to get AWS debug output:
$ athena --debug
2017-07-21 10:10:45,477 botocore.credentials [DEBUG] Looking for credentials via: env
2017-07-21 10:10:45,478 botocore.credentials [DEBUG] Looking for credentials via: assume-role
2017-07-21 10:10:45,478 botocore.credentials [DEBUG] Looking for credentials via: shared-credentials-file
2017-07-21 10:10:45,479 botocore.credentials [INFO] Found credentials in shared credentials file: ~/.aws/credentials
...Turn on debug at the athena> prompt by typing:
athena> set debug true
debug - was: False
now: True
The below error means the version of aws CLI is not recent enough. Upgrade
to version 1.10.18 or higher:
Command 'aws sts get-caller-identity --output text --query 'Account' --profile default' returned non-zero exit status 2
Command history is written to ~/.athena_history.
- AWS Athena: https://aws.amazon.com/athena/
- AWS SDK for Python: https://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/athena.html
- PrestoDB: https://prestodb.io/docs/current/
Athena CLI
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