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HANA


SAP HANA is a column-oriented, in-memory DBMS developed by SAP SE

Developer
Country of Origin
DE
Start Year
2010
Former Name
SAP High-Performance Analytic Appliance
Project Type
Commercial
Written in
C++
Supported Languages
Scala
Derived From
MaxDB
Operating System
Linux
License
Proprietary

Database Entry

HANA


SAP HANA is a column-oriented, in-memory DBMS developed by SAP SE

History[03][04]


The early development of SAP HANA was based on TREX search engine, P*Time, and MaxDB. It was mainly designed for the real-time data analytics and aggregation at first. With the development of cloud techniques, SAP HANA also provides Platform as a service on multiple cloud providers. In 2016, SAP HANA 2 was released, which can also support Earth Observation Analysis and Text Analysis, apart from database and application management.

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