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.

"Storage will go away from a turning disk," says Plattner. SAP's in-memory database argument has always made sense in theory. Analytics is just too slow. Plattner said a report on the last eight ...

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. It is optimized ...

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 ...

Can SAP Threaten Oracle Through In-Memory? Oracle is the largest player in the database software market and a potent competitor to SAP in the applications software market. However, as discussed ...

SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, executive board ...

With this as background, Oracle announced July 23 that its year-old in-memory database has been certified by SAP for use with SAP packages based on the SAP NetWeaver 7.x platform. So, users won ...

Learn More. German enterprise software maker SAP is truly betting the farm on a 2-year-old: its in-memory database, HANA. In a global press event Jan. 10, SAP announced that its customers now have ...

More details emerged Wednesday about SAP’s plans to build new in-memory database appliances for high-speed analytics, which could set the vendor up against platforms like Oracle’s Exadata.

SAP is coupling its HANA in-memory database with software for measuring market trends and customers’ moods through the analysis of unstructured social media data, the vendor announced Wednesday.

SAP is planning to work with partners to develop new hardware appliances that employ its in-memory database technology that could potentially serve as rivals to Oracle’s Exadata data-processing ...

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 ...