https://data-flair.

training/blogs/sap-hana-pros-and-cons/

What is SAP HANA?

SAP HANA is the first technology which use for both OLTP and OLAP
application processing.
It is achieved by extracting data from the transactional system like ERP, then
transforming the data to use for reporting and also, it offers query processing
environment for both structured and unstructured data such as a relational
database (tables) and less structured (texts, graphs) respectively. Thus, SAP
HANA can use in many different ways like via SAP Business Warehouse,
accelerators and native applications.

OLTP is a transactional processing while OLAP is an analytical processing system. OLTP

is a system that manages transaction-oriented applications on the internet for example, ATM.
OLAP is an online system that reports to multidimensional analytical queries like financial
reporting, forecasting, etc.

What is OLTP?
Online transaction processing shortly known as OLTP supports transaction-oriented
applications in a 3-tier architecture. OLTP administers day to day transaction of an
organization.

Example of OLTP system

An example of OLTP system is ATM center. Assume that a couple has a joint account
with a bank. One day both simultaneously reach different ATM centers at precisely
the same time and want to withdraw total amount present in their bank account.
Other examples of OLTP applications are:

 Online banking
 Online airline ticket booking
 Sending a text message
 Order entry
 Add a book to shopping cart

Example of OLAP
Any Datawarehouse system is an OLAP system. Uses of OLAP are as follows

 A company might compare their mobile phone sales in September with sales in
October, then compare those results with another location which may be stored
in a sperate database.
 Amazon analyzes purchases by its customers to come up with a personalized
homepage with products which likely interest to their customer.
 SAP HANA Components
In this part of SAP HANA Tutorial, we will study the SAP HANA is a
technology that is a collection of different tools and technologies that work in
tandem to bring it in existence. There are four technologies which collectively
make SAP HANA.
 DB: SAP HANA DB is the core in-memory database which central to the
functioning of SAP HANA.
 Studio: SAP HANA Studio has the modeling tools for data handling and
management.
 Appliance: SAP HANA software install in an appliance, which is vendor
hardware.
 Application Cloud: SAP HANA Cloud is the cloud-based infrastructure
ensuring the functioning of appliances.

In this SAP HANA tutorial, we have listed some popular vendors of HANA:

1. IBM
2. Dell
3. HP
4. Cisco
5. Fujitsu
6. Lenovo (China)
7. NEC
8. Huawei