SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications ...

SAP will also over time “bring all the benefits of HANA” to Sybase’s database products, he added. Later this year, SAP plans to issue clearer guidance on what customers should do depending ...

Perhaps most significant is the news that SAP HANA stands as the world’s largest in-memory database. It can handle ten billion records, 100 terabytes of data and 200 million query responses.

Claim #1: SAP’s HANA is an in-memory database, so it must be blazingly fast running all of SAP’s business applications. Challenge: HANA is an in-memory column store database.

IBM and Oracle also have products in this category and SAP currently claims over 21,000 HANA and 7,900 S/4HANA licensed customers. However, unlike the other two, SAP is all-in on in-memory.

NEWS ANALYSIS: SAP has been able to make a fast transition to the cloud because it has never had to market its own proprietary hardware.

Oracle on Thursday rolled out an updated version of its TimesTen In-Memory Database, which is a key component of its upcoming Exalytics appliance as well as a competitor to SAP’s HANA platform ...

Data held in memory by HANA is backed by a persistence layer that logs transactions and incorporates savepoints that create images of the database, according to an SAP document.

SAP has provided an extensive window into the future direction of its HANA in-memory database platform, which has emerged as the central pillar of the company's product strategy.

SAP's HANA (high performance analytic appliance) in-memory computing engine went into general availability on Monday, giving the vendor a flashy new weapon against the likes of Oracle's Exadata ...

SAP seems to be betting its future on its HANA in-memory database, spotlighting the technology once again at the Sapphire conference in Orlando Wednesday, announcing a slew of new applications ...