What is SAP HANA?
SAP HANA (High-performance Analytic Appliance) is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory instead of keeping it on a disk. The column-oriented in-memory database design allows you to run advanced analytics alongside high-speed transactions – in a single system.
Why is this so important? Because it lets companies process massive amounts of data with near-zero latency, query data in an instant, and become truly data-driven. By storing data in column-based tables in main memory and bringing online analytical processing (OLAP) and online transactional processing (OLTP) together, SAP HANA is unique – and significantly faster than other database management systems (DBMS) on the market today.
Built for fast queries and high-speed transactions – SAP HANA’s in-memory, column-oriented architecture also includes, database management, application development, advanced analytical processing, and flexible data virtualisation.
By combining multiple data management capabilities – and making all types of data instantly available from a single system – SAP HANA simplifies IT, helps businesses innovate, and knocks down barriers to digital transformation.
Just how fast is SAP HANA?
3600XS
faster than traditional databases
<1second
answers queries in less than 1 second
3.5billion
faster than traditional databases
15billion
aggregations per second per core
Top 10 benefits of SAP HANA?
The SAP HANA database offers many more benefits than just storing data, serving it, and providing a single source of truth. The top 10 benefits of SAP HANA, both on-premises and with SAP HANA Cloud, are
1. Complete: Includes database services, advanced analytical processing, application development, and data integration.
2. Fast: Response to queries in less than a second in large production applications.
3. Versatile: Supports hybrid transactional and analytical processing and many data types.
4. Efficient: Provides a smaller data footprint with no data duplication, advanced compression, and reducing data silos.
5. Powerful: Rapidly queries large datasets with a massively parallel processing (MPP) database.
6. Scalable: Easily scales for data volume and concurrent users across a distributed environment.
7. Flexible: Deploys in a public or private cloud, in multiple clouds, on-premise, or a hybrid scenario.
8. Simple: Provides a single gateway to all your data with advanced data virtualization.
9. Intelligent: Augments applications and analytics with built-in machine learning (ML).
10. Secure: Offers comprehensive data and application security, secure setup, and more.