Minerva

Minerva is the Roman equivalent of Athena, and Athena is AWS's database that stores results in S3.

In order to ease programmatic access to Athena and offer blocking access (so that your code waits for the result), I wrote minerva to make it seamless.

The results are returned as pyarrow datasets (with parquet files as the underlying structure).

Basic Usage

import minerva as m

athena = m.Athena("hay", "s3://haystac-pmo-athena/")
query  = athena.query('select * from "trajectories"."kitware" limit 10')
data   = query.results()
print(data.head(10))

First, a connection to Athena is made. The first argument is the AWS profile in ~/.aws/credentials. The second argument is the S3 location where the results will be stored.

In the second substantive line, an SQL query is made. This is non-blocking. The query is off and running and you are free to do whatever you want now.

In the third line, the results are requested. This is blocking, so the code will wait here (checking with AWS every 5 seconds) until the results are ready. Then, the results are downloaded to /tmp/ and lazily interpreted as parquet files in the form of a pyarrow.dataset.dataset.

DO NOT END YOUR STATEMENTS WITH A SEMICOLON

ONLY ONE STATEMENT PER QUERY ALLOWED

Returning Scalar Values

In SQL, scalar values get assigned an anonymous column -- Athena doesn't like that. Thus, you have to assign the column a name.

data = athena.query('select count(*) as my_col from "trajectories"."kitware"').results()
print(data.head(1))

TODO

• parallelize the downloading of files