Comparing BWA and SAP HANA

In this section, we will be covering the evolution of SAP HANA and its innovation process. SAP was one of the early pioneers in using in-memory technology as it has been highly consistent in improving the performance for gaining high data compression and achieving real-time analytics.

Evolution of SAP BWA and SAP HANA

TREX and SAP Enterprise Search were some of the first products to innovate and use the concepts of in-memory and column-based storage. Based on the strength of these products, SAP developed SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator, which is an in-memory product mainly for performance optimization.

With SAP NetWeaver BW Accelerator established in the customer's IT enterprise landscape and market, SAP has consistently expanded its vision to continuously innovate to utilize this in-memory technology to benefit its customers. The vision was to respond to the business requirements for enterprises in combining OLTP and OLAP by removing the requirements of pre-aggregated...