SQLark
A better Amazon Athena console in your own AWS account: a SQL workspace, charts and Grafana-style dashboards, query history with who and cost, and per-team access.
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Exploring big Athena results in a browser, without loading them all
An Athena query can return millions of rows, and a browser can't hold them. Here is how SQLark pages through results, filters with a right-click, and charts the whole result by letting Athena do the aggregating, with a time window you can zoom and pan.
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Athena access per team, enforced by AWS itself
Giving one team Athena access to its own databases means IAM policies across Athena, Glue, S3 and KMS, and dashboard tools often run every viewer's queries as one role. Here is how SQLark grants access per user and group, and has AWS enforce it on every query.
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Athena dashboards that don't scan your whole data lake
A dashboard on Athena runs its queries every time someone opens it or it refreshes, and Athena charges for every byte scanned. Here is how partition filters, time macros and result reuse keep each refresh down to the data on screen, with the numbers.
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Who ran that Athena query, and what did it cost?
Athena's history keeps 45 days, per workgroup, and never says who ran a query. Cost is visible per workgroup, not per person. Here is what it takes to answer "who scanned two terabytes yesterday" with AWS alone, and how SQLark records it for every query.
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SQLark: a better Amazon Athena console, with dashboards, in your own AWS account
Athena is a fine engine with a thin console: no charts, a 45-day history that doesn't say who ran what, and saved queries stuck in one workgroup. SQLark adds a proper workspace, Grafana-style dashboards and per-team access, all running in your own AWS account.
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