High speed Deep Broad Simple High Performance Enable new applications Optimizes existing applications Hybrid data management Standard DBMS features Cloud support Indexing, Search Text Analysis Temporal tables
HANA is 2 tier Architecture
Application layer presents as a XS service inside the HANA data base, your application code written inside the HANA DB.
Code to data paradigm works in SAP HANA
In SAP HANA Can store the data in Row or column format.