SHOW DATABASES - Amazon Athena
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SHOW DATABASES

Lists all databases defined in the metastore. You can use DATABASES or SCHEMAS. They mean the same thing.

Synopsis

SHOW {DATABASES | SCHEMAS} [LIKE 'regular_expression']

Parameters

[LIKE 'regular_expression']

Filters the list of databases to those that match the regular_expression that you specify. For wildcard character matching, you can use the combination .*, which matches any character zero to unlimited times.

Examples

SHOW SCHEMAS;
SHOW DATABASES LIKE '.*analytics';