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SAP HANA (HochleistungsANalyseAnwendung or High-performance ANalytic Application) is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its primary function as the software running a database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications.
SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) is SAP’s Enterprise Data Warehouse product. [1] It can transform and consolidate business information from virtually any source system. [citation needed] It ran on industry standard RDBMS until version 7.3 at which point it began to transition onto SAP's HANA in-memory DBMS, particularly with the release of version 7.4.
As SAP Business Suite 4 only runs on the SAP HANA database it is packaged as one product: SAP S/4HANA. [2] SAP's classical R3, ERP and ECC based business suite and related products were designed to run on several database platforms, including those from Oracle, Microsoft and IBM. [3]
SQL Anywhere Server is a high performing and embeddable relational database-management system that scales from thousands of users in server environments down to desktop and mobile applications used in widely deployed, zero-administration environments.
Database administration is the function of managing and maintaining database management systems (DBMS) software. Mainstream DBMS software such as Oracle , IBM Db2 and Microsoft SQL Server need ongoing management.
It has at various times been named VDN, RDS, Reflex, Supra 2, DDB/4, Entire SQL-DB-Server and Adabas D. In 1997 SAP acquired the software from Software AG and developed it as SAP DB, releasing the source code under the GNU General Public License in October 2000. In 2003 SAP AG and MySQL AB jointly re-branded the database system as MaxDB.
The database schema is the structure of a database described in a formal language supported typically by a relational database management system (RDBMS). The term " schema " refers to the organization of data as a blueprint of how the database is constructed (divided into database tables in the case of relational databases ).
All SAP data exists and all SAP software runs in the context of a SAP system. A system consists of a central relational database and one or more application servers ("instances") accessing the data and programs in this database. A SAP system contains at least one instance but may contain more, mostly for reasons of sizing and performance.