Week 1: Introduction to SAP HANA

Unit 2: The case for an in-memory database

The case for an in-memory database
Transformation through simplification

Resources saved
and diverted
Effort / Services
/ Admin
Innovation
Cost

Software
Effort / Services / Admin

Software
Hardware
Hardware

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The case for an in-memory database
The motivation and idea

Source:
In-Memory Data Management:
An Inflection Point for Enterprise Applications.
Hasso Plattner Alexander Zeier
ISBN 978-3-642-19362-0

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 The case for an in-memory database
SAP HANA the only business data platform for the Intelligent Enterprise

Accelerate with Simplicity Innovate with Confidence

The only all-in-one, Most future-ready with
in-memory-first data platform advanced real-time data
protection

Act with Live Intelligence Achieve Cloud Freedom

SAP HANA
Next-gen HTAP with The only hybrid and multi-cloud
broadest advanced analytics data platform

HTAP = Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing

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The case for an in-memory database
SAP HANA platform common use cases

Optimizing Operational Reports, Real-Time

Business Operations Dashboards, and Analytics Operational Intelligence
Get instant insights into real-time Analyze and visualize operational Run queries against operational
transactions to optimize details to support your data, streams, and events to
business operations day-to-day activities deliver real-time insights

Data Warehouse Decision Support,

Big Data
and Data Mart Simulation, and Automation
Deliver actionable insights on Uncover the value in large, complex, Streamline and automate business
enterprise-wide or departmental data and rapidly growing data sets processes with advanced analytics

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The case for an in-memory database
In-memory columnar store – Faster OLTP + OLAP processing on single copy of data

▪ ACID-compliant ▪ Optimized for multi-core parallel processing

▪ High-speed transaction support ▪ Single instruction, multiple data (SIMD)
▪ Aggregations on the fly processing support
▪ No indexes for fast access ▪ NUMA optimization to enable future support for
very large (20TB+) nodes (CPU/Memory)
▪ Process compressed data
▪ Schema flexibility – Add columns on the fly

+ + + +
Need to update all rows, and normally need Add columns on the fly:
complex control process simple and fast
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The case for an in-memory database
Parallel processing – Faster data processing

Core 1 Core 2

Core 3

Core 4

▪ Each processor can scan a column or portion of a column in parallel

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The case for an in-memory database
Columnar store to process transactions and queries – OLTP + OLAP on single copy of data

▪ Delta storage is optimized for transactions

▪ Delta storage is merged periodically with main storage
▪ No data duplication – Data kept either in delta storage or in main storage

Column Table

Delta
Write Operation
Storage

Read Operation

Main
Storage

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The case for an in-memory database
SAP HANA capabilities power the Intelligent Enterprise

SAP APPS ISV APP CUSTOM APPS

SAP HANA
D A T A B A S E

APPLICATION SMART DATA

DEVELOPMENT MULTI-MODEL PROCESSING VIRTUALIZATION

App Language Spatial Graph Predictive Replication Caching Data

Runtimes Choice Modeling Quality

SAPUI5 Application Information Enterprise Document Machine Federation Integration

Lifecycle Modeling Search Store Learning
Management
DATABASE MANAGEMENT

Columnar Multi-Core & Advanced Multitenancy Multi-Tier Data Relational Data Admin & High Availability &
Store Parallelization Compression Storage Modeling Privacy Security Disaster Recovery

AGILITY | INNOVATION | EFFICIENCY

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