SAP HANA - A Way Towards The Future

I have been involved in many SAP HANA implementations/migrations and upgrade for my clients and HANA. The biggest advantage is its unparalleled speed and access to data in real-time. Its architecture organizes and stores data in columns and in-memory which eliminates data copies, allows for faster loading, and uses less memory.

My client and their management are hugely benefiting by real-time reporting built on the HANA database.

SAP HANA allows data to store and process in columns as well as rows in the database. Also, many operations can be parallelly processed in SAP HANA as opposed to only a single operation processing in the traditional database for executing one query. Thus, parallel processing increases the speed of operation manifold.

In a traditional database and the technologies working with it, users can use only one of the transactional processes (OLTP and OLAP) at a time. But, in SAP HANA’s in-memory database, you can access various databases both for transactional (OLTP) and analytical (OLAP) queries parallelly at once.