SAP HANA

SAP's in-memory column database, the base of S/4HANA, serving transactions and analytics from the same tables. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.

Category
database engine
Developer
SAP
Created by
—
First release
2010
License
Proprietary
Open source
No
Pricing
Paid
Website
https://www.sap.com/products/data-cloud/hana.html
Written in
C++
Data model
Relational, Document, Graph, Vector
Storage layout
In-memory
Workload
Both (HTAP)
Analytics architecture
Not an analytics platform
Query language
SQL, SQLScript
ACID transactions
Yes
Schema
Strict
Deployment
Server, Distributed cluster, Managed cloud
Scaling
Sharding
Create, read, update, delete
Create: fast (Inserts land in a write-optimized delta store); Read: fast (In-memory column scans); Update: moderate (Writes go to the delta, merged into the main store later); Delete: moderate (Old versions removed when the delta is merged)

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