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Lesson: SAP HANA Basics and Technical Concepts
was not possible to develop an application which is both real-time and able to analyze a large
amount of data, perhaps even unstructured data, simultaneously.
Figure 2: SAP HANA: Delivers Across Five Dimensions
SAP HANA tries to deliver across all these five dimensions, so that you no longer have to
make so many trade-off decisions. The goal is to enable the development of applications that
combine Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
usage patterns.
SAP HANA Goals
● Enable new applications and optimize existing applications
● High performance and scalability
● Hybrid data management system – combining different paradigms in one system
● Compatibility and standard Database Management System (DBMS) features
● Support for text analysis, indexing, and search
● Cloud support and application isolation
● Support for temporal tables
● Executing application logic inside the data layer
SAP HANA has the following goals:
Enable new applications and optimize existing applications
SAP HANA is an in-memory data platform that is deployable as an appliance or in the
cloud and makes full use of the capabilities of current hardware to increase application
performance, reduce cost of ownership, and enable new scenarios and applications that
were not possible before.
High performance and scalability
SAP HANA is designed to make full use of multi-core CPUs by parallelization of
execution. It can be distributed across multiple servers to achieve good scalability in
terms of both data volume and concurrent requests.
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