Athena CLI

Presto-like CLI tool for AWS Athena. The alternative is using the AWS CLI Athena sub-commands.

Requirements

A recent version of the aws CLI must be available on the PATH.

Installation

To install using pip run:

$ pip install athena-cli

Or, clone the GitHub repo and run:

$ python setup.py install

Configuration

Only required configuration is AWS credentials.

Usage

$ 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 {ALIGNED,VERTICAL,CSV,TSV,CSV_HEADER,TSV_HEADER,NULL}
                        output format for batch mode
  --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>
CREATE TABLE <table> AS <query>
CREATE [OR REPLACE] VIEW <view> AS <query>
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

Example

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&region=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

Troubleshooting

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

Command history is written to ~/.athena_history.

Similar Projects

• AthenaCLI: CLI tool for AWS Athena service that can do auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
• athena-cli (Ruby): CLI for Amazon Athena, powered by JRuby.

References

• 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/

License

Athena CLI
Copyright 2017-2018 Guardian News & Media
Copyright 2019,2023 Nick Satterly

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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