Day 1 — Introduction to SAP HANA

What is SAP HANA? Explain its features and business benefits.

SAP HANA stands for High Performance Analytic Appliance. It is an in-memory relational database developed by SAP that stores data in RAM instead of hard disks, enabling much faster data processing. Think of it like this:

A retail company stores 50 million sales records. Earlier: Generating a sales report took 20 minutes.

1. What does SAP HANA stand for? 2. Why is SAP HANA called an in-memory database? 3. What are the advantages of SAP HANA?