SAP HANA:

SAP HANA is German Multinational Corporation, SAP AG’s in-memory database technology. The software comes with 4 components namely, SAP HANA DB, SAP HANA studio, SAP HANA Appliance and SAP HANA Application cloud. HANA DB takes advantage of low cost of main memory (RAM), data processing abilities of multi-core processors and the fast data access of solid-state drives relative to traditional hard drives to deliver better performance of analytical and transactional applications. The product comes with a multi-engine query support to both relational and column oriented data. HANA also supports graphs and text processors along with semi- and unstructured data management within the same system. HANA DB is also 100 percent ACID compliant. ACID is the acronym for Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability. These are set of properties that guarantee reliable database transactions.

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