A single in-memory platform that includes predictive, planning, text processing, spatial, and business analytics libraries, SAP HANA accelerates analytics and applications, as well as combining databases, data processing, and application platform capabilities.
Using in-memory database technology SAP HANA not only can run live advanced analytics on real-time but also can eliminate predefined aggregates, snapshot known nowadays as materialized views, and duplicate data between operational and planning systems and decision support systems (DSS).
In addition to being a relational database management system (RDBMS) SAP HANA combines OLAP and OLTP processing into a single in-memory database which eliminates disk bottlenecks and offers pioneer performance.
SAP HANA is the most suitable platform for creating and deploying real time applications and analytics.