8/1/2021 SAP e-book

Unit 1
Lesson 1
SAP HANA Basics and Technical Concepts

LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, you learn how to describe SAP HANA goals, technical innovations, and
challenges; understand the fundamental technical concepts of SAP HANA; and determine if
SAP HANA’s row store or column store is used for an ABAP transparent table and which
indices are used on SAP HANA.

Business Example
Your company has recognized SAP HANA as an important strategic topic and has asked you
to refresh your ABAP skills, paying particular attention to those required to develop or review
code that leverages the strengths of SAP HANA.

LESSON OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
● Describe SAP HANA basics
● Understand the fundamental technical concepts of SAP HANA

SAP HANA Goals

Figure 1: Today's Technology Requires Trade-off Decisions

Developing applications using technology that pre-dates SAP HANA typically required making
several trade-off decisions.
The figure, Today's Technology Requires Trade-off Decisions, shows the five dimensions of
requirements that are typical for business applications. So far, these dimensions have been in
conflict.
For example, you had to decide between providing a high-speed application and developing an
application that does not require special preparation of the data, such as calculating
aggregations beforehand and storing the results in addition to the base data. In addition, it

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