SAP HANA

SAP HANA
Developer(s) SAP SE
Stable release
SPS12 Revision 120[1] / May 11, 2016 (2016-05-11)
Development status Active...
Written in C, C++
Available in Multi-lingual
Type In-memory RDBMS
License Proprietary
Website SAP HANA DB

SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE.[2][3] Its primary function as database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and includes ETL capabilities and an application server.

History

To create SAP HANA, SAP SE developed or acquired technologies, including TREX search engine (in-memory column-oriented search engine), P*TIME (in-memory OLTP Platform acquired by SAP in 2005), and MaxDB with its in-memory liveCache engine.[4][5] In 2008, teams from SAP SE, working with Hasso Plattner Institute and Stanford University, demonstrated an application architecture for real-time analytics and aggregation, mentioned as "Hasso's New Architecture" in former SAP executive Vishal Sikka's blog. Before the name "HANA" stabilized, people referred to this product as "New Database".[6]

The software was previously called "SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance".[7]

The first product shipped in late November 2010.[5][8] By mid-2011, the technology had attracted interest but the experienced business customers still considered it "in early days".[9] HANA support for SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse was announced in September 2011 for availability by November.[10]

In 2012, SAP promoted aspects of cloud computing.[11] In October 2012, SAP announced a platform as a service offering called the SAP HANA Cloud Platform[12][13] and a variant called SAP HANA One that used a smaller amount of memory.[14][15]

In January 2013, SAP enterprise resource planning software from its Business Suite was announced and became available by May.[16][17]

In May 2013, a managed private cloud offering called the HANA Enterprise Cloud service was announced.[18][19]

Rather than versioning, the software utilizes service packs for major releases. Service packs are released every 6 months.[20]

Architecture

Overview

Indexer components

The index server performs session management, authorization, transaction management and command processing. The database has both a row store and a columnar store. Users can create tables using either store, but the columnar store has more capabilities and most frequently used.[21] The index server also manages persistence between cached memory images of database objects, log files and permanent storage files. XS engine allows to build web applications.[22]

MVCC

HANA manages concurrency through the use of multiversion concurrency control (MVCC), which gives every transaction a snapshot of the database at a point in time. When an MVCC database needs to update an item of data, it will not overwrite the old data with new data, but will instead mark the old data as obsolete and add the newer version.[23][24]

Supported platforms

Deployment

SAP HANA can be deployed on-premises as an appliance from a certified hardware vendor or on certified hardware with tailored data center integration (TDI).[27] With tailored data center integration (TDI) approach, existing hardware components such as storage and network can be reused.[28][29] Both horizontal and vertical scalability are supported. HANA is also available in the cloud as a Database as a Service on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer,[30] Huawei FusionSphere,[31] HP Helion[32], or the SAP HANA Cloud Platform[33] (PaaS) as well as SAP HANA Enterprise Could[34] (MCaaS).

Editions

SAP HANA licensing is primarily divided into two categories.[35]

Runtime License:

Used to run SAP applications such as SAP Business Warehouse powered by SAP HANA and SAP S/4HANA.

Full Use License:

Used to run both SAP and non-SAP applications. This licensing can be used to create custom applications.[36]

As part of the full use license, features are grouped as editions targeting various use cases.

In addition, capabilities such as streaming and ETL are licensed as an additional options.[37]

See also

References

  1. Support Package Stack 12 (Last Update: May 11, 2016, Revision 120)
  2. Jeff Kelly (July 12, 2013). "Primer on SAP HANA". Wikibon. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
  3. SAP HANA - The Column Oriented (Based) Database on YouTube (December 8, 2012)
  4. Vey, Gereon; Krutov, Ilya (January 2012). "SAP In-Memory Computing on IBM eX5 Systems" (PDF). Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  5. 1 2 SAP SE (June 17, 2012). "SAP HANA Timeline". SlideShare. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
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  8. Chris Kanaracus (December 1, 2010). "SAP launches HANA for in-memory analytics: The in-memory analytic appliance will compete with next-generation data-processing platforms such as Oracle's Exadata machines". Info World. Retrieved September 24, 2013.
  9. Chris Kanaracus (September 15, 2011). "SAP's HANA is hot, but still in early days". Network World. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  10. Courtney Bjorlin (November 9, 2011). "SAP Begins BW on HANA Ramp-Up, First Big Test for the HANA Database". ASUG News. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  11. Trevis Team (April 30, 2012). "SAP Headed For $71 On Cloud, Mobile And HANA Growth". Forbes. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
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  13. "Overview | SAP HANA Cloud Platform". hcp.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  14. IBM Cloud AMM for SAP HANA One
  15. Doug Henschen (October 17, 2012). "SAP Launches Cloud Platform Built On Hana". Information Week. Archived from the original on October 19, 2012. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  16. Brian McKenna (January 11, 2013). "SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical". Computer Weekly. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  17. "Sapphire 2013: Business Suite on HANA goes to general availability". Computer Weekly. May 15, 2013. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  18. Chris Kanaracus (May 7, 2013). "SAP unveils HANA Enterprise Cloud service: Customers will be able to run their applications on the HANA-powered cloud". Network World. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  19. "SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud". hana.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  20. John Appleby (May 28, 2012). "Update III: The SAP HANA FAQ - answering key SAP In-Memory questions". Bluefin Solutions. Retrieved October 9, 2013.
  21. https://intellipaat.com/tutorial/sap-hana-tutorifferent purposes.
  22. http://www.saphana.com/community/blogs/blog/2012/12
  23. http://help.sap.com/saphelp_hanaplatform/helpdata/en/94/fc07fbeff1474aa878737f2c9921d3/content.htm?frameset=/en/63/d055985b2a4d19bc860c98ac5a02cb/frameset.htm&current_toc=/en/85/d132c3f05e40a2b20c25aa5fd6331b/plain.htm&node_id=68&show_children=false
  24. http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~norman/HANA_Debull_2013.pdf
  25. "SAP HANA Hardware and Software Requirements".
  26. "SAP HANA on Power with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications".
  27. "Certified SAP HANA® Hardware Directory". global.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  28. "Datacenter integration is the new 'table stakes' | #SAPPHIRENOW". Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  29. "SAP HANA Tailored Data Center Integration - SAP HANA Technical Operations Manual - SAP Library". help.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
  30. "SAP chooses IBM as a premier strategic provider of Cloud infrastructure services for its business critical applications".
  31. "Huawei Announces Availability of SAP HANA® Running on Huawei FusionSphere-huawei press center". huawei. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  32. "HP News - HP and SAP Accelerate Journey to SAP® S/4HANA on HP Helion Managed Cloud". www8.hp.com. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  33. "Overview | SAP HANA Cloud Platform". hcp.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  34. "SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud | Services". SAP. Retrieved 2016-09-08.
  35. "Update IV: The SAP HANA FAQ - answering key SAP In-Memory questions". www.bluefinsolutions.com. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  36. "SAP HANA in-memory DBMS overview". Retrieved 2016-07-08.
  37. "SAP HANA Options and Additional Capabilities – SAP Help Portal Page". help.sap.com. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
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