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4/6/2019 SAP e-book

Unit 1: Introduction

The primary concern of this course is to learn how to optimize ABAP applications directly
running on SAP HANA, that is, applications using SAP HANA as the primary database
underneath the ABAP stack. A typical example of this kind of application is SAP CRM powered
by SAP HANA, or the Business Suite powered by SAP HANA.
The course also covers the types of applications shown on the right-hand side of the SAP
HANA as Database for ABAP Applications figure, which use SAP HANA to accelerate ABAP
applications by using a separate SAP HANA server apart from the ABAP stack. This replicates
some of the ABAP system’s data into SAP HANA and calls SAP HANA remotely from ABAP to
speed up selected reports or transactions.

SAP HANA Innovations and Challenges

Figure 5: What Made SAP HANA Possible?

Dramatically improved hardware economics and technology innovations in software made it


possible for SAP to deliver its vision of the real-time enterprise with in-memory business
applications. Understanding them is important to an understanding of SAP HANA’s
performance characteristics.

In-Memory Computing and the Shift of Performance Bottlenecks


Historically, database systems were designed to perform well on computer systems with
limited RAM. This had the effect that slow disk I/O was the main bottleneck in data
throughput. Consequently, the architecture of those systems was designed with a focus on
optimizing disk access, for example, by minimizing the number of disk blocks (or pages) to be
read into the main memory when processing a query. In addition, CPUs had a single core and
networks were far slower.

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