# Amazon Athena vendor-specific interface · access · 2016

Revision 1 (11 October 2026) · Modeled snapshot · through 8 October 2026.

All figures are research-informed estimates of analytical activity. Significant errors may remain; decimal places do not imply measurement precision.

0.1725% of the full access layer.

[Amazon Athena vendor-specific interface](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/vendor-athena.md): historical names and annual shares.

AWS-managed SQL query service. Its workloads are counted here once, separately from Presto.

Connections below describe the whole Amazon Athena engine. Access and storage mixes are estimated separately; they are not a joint interface-to-storage distribution.

## Access use within this engine

| Option | Share of engine activity | Share of full access layer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [JDBC](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/jdbc.md) | 49% | 0.2% |
| [Amazon Athena vendor-specific interface](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/vendor-athena.md) | 34.5% | 0.2% |
| [Other language/portable APIs](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/access/other-api.md) | 16.5% | <0.1% |

## Storage use within this engine

| Option | Share of engine activity | Share of full storage layer |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Standalone Parquet on object storage](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/storage/parquet-object.md) | 50% | 0.3% |
| [Object-store CSV/text/Avro](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/storage/object-row.md) | 25% | 0.1% |
| [Standalone ORC on object storage](https://history.columnar.tech/technologies/storage/orc-object.md) | 25% | 0.1% |

[All percentages for 2016](https://history.columnar.tech/years/2016.md)

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