INTRODUCTION TO SAP HANA

SAP HANA combines database, data processing, and application platform capabilities in-memory and the platform provides libraries for predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics.

While eliminating data redundancy and latency, the new architecture enables converged OLTP and OLAP data processing within a single in-memory column-based data store with ACID compliance. SAP HANA has become the most suitable platform for building and deploying next-generation, realtime applications and analytics. It provides advanced capabilities, such as predictive text analytics, spatial processing, data virtualization, on the same architecture, besides simplifying application development and processing across big data sources and structures.

At its core, it is an innovative in-memory relational database management system that makes full sense of the capabilities of current hardware to increase application performance, to reduce cost of ownership, and to enable new scenarios and applications that were not possible before.

Components

• SAP HANA is the introduction of SAP AG, in-memory database technology. There are five components in the Software Group
• SAP HANA DB (or HANA DB) refers to the technology of the database
• SAP HANA studio refers to a set of tools provided by SAP for modeling
• SAP HANA Appliance relates to HANA DB supplied as a partner of certified equipment as a unit. It also includes tools for modeling of HANA studio, as well as replication tools and data conversion to move the data into the database HANA
• SAP HANA Application Cloud refers to a cloud infrastructure for application delivery (usually existing SAP applications rewritten to run on HANA).