What is SAP HANA - and what does the abbreviation HANA mean?
SAP HANA is an in-memory platform that enables companies to carry out analyses of large amounts of data in real time. The abbreviation HANA stands for "High Performance Analytic Appliance". Initially, it was a pure in-memory database, but it has since evolved into a versatile platform. SAP HANA is a development and integration platform from SAP for software applications, which at its core consists of a relational database management system (RDBMS).
The origin of SAP HANA
The project HANA was started in 2006 by SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, who was then a computer science professor at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam. His goal was to develop a database with a response time approaching zero for both transaction processing and data analysis. Plattner wanted to create a system that could answer every conceivable business question in real time.
What is the relationship between SAP HANA and SAP S/4 HANA?
SAP S/4 HANA, SAP's next-generation application suite, was developed on the SAP HANA in-memory platform. The "S" stands for "simple", the number "4" for the 4th generation of SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) and HANA for the database technology.
How is SAP HANA being used today?
The SAP HANA platform can now be considered both an analytics application, database or development platform. SAP HANA performs both transactional and analytical processing and, as an open cloud platform, offers companies numerous other sophisticated applications.
What are the advantages of SAP HANA as an in-memory database?
The advantages of SAP HANA are:
A unified, fast platform for data management
Evaluation of large amounts of data with high performance
Analysing data and making decisions in real time
Central, column-oriented database for transactional and analytical workloads with any data type
In-memory machine learning technology for integrating intelligent functions into applications as well as analytics and is designed for cutting-edge technologies such as Big Data and IoT scenarios
What is
SAP S/4 HANA Cloud?
What is S/4 HANA?
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