Continuous Data for HANA

As data refresh operations are very time-consuming and labor-intensive for SAP, Delphix Continuous Data for HANA is recommended to accompany Delphix’s Continuous Compliance offering. It makes it much easier to quickly populate data in lower environments, as well as to time-travel back before a mistake in the masking process may have occurred.

Overview

SAP HANA is an in-memory database, columnar-oriented database management system developed by SAP. The key differentiators of HANA are its tight integration into the SAP application stack coupled with its columnar store, the latter of which is intended to enable customers to fold both OLTP and OLAP operations into a single database entity. In practical terms, this means an SAP HANA database stores both analytical and transactional data. Analysis of the data combination is possible on the fly, helping businesses make real-time analytical decisions.

SAP HANA as a database product continues to evolve dramatically. Key among recent changes has been the movement from a Single Database Container (SDC) to Multi-Tenant Database Containers (MDC), an architectural change that has become the exclusive architecture of HANA version 2.0.

For detailed documentation, see SAP HANA Environments and Data Sources.