The SAP HANA® platform combines a robust database with services for creating innovative
applications. According to the vendor, it enables real-time
business by converging transactions and analytics on one in-memory
platform. Running on premise or in the
cloud, SAP HANA aims to untangle IT complexity, bringing huge savings in data
management and empowering decision makers everywhere with new insight and
predictive power.
SAP HANA is an application that uses in-memory database technology to process very large amounts of real-time data from relational databases, both SAP and non-SAP, in a very short time. The in-memory computing engine allows HANA to process data stored in RAM as opposed to reading it from a disk which means that the data can be accessed in real time by the applications using HANA. The product is sold both as an appliance and as a cloud-based software solution.