What is SAP HANA?


SAP HANA is a platform. 

It has its own Application server (XS) only available for SP5.

XS = Extended Application Services

XS is a small footprint application server, web server and basis for an application development platform that resides in SAP HANA.

SAP HANA is an Appliance.

SAP HANA appliance is a flexible, multipurpose, data source agonistic in memory appliance that combines SAP software components optimized to run on Intel-based hardware delivered by SAP's leading partner such as Dell, Cisco, IBM, HP and Fujitsu.

It includes a number of integrated SAP software components including SAP HANA database, real-time replication services, data services, data and life cycle management, support for multiple interfaces based on industry standards and easy to use data modelling tool called SAP HANA studio.


SAP HANA is In-Memory Database.

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