SAP HANA is the first major database platform that is specifically optimized for Intel® Optane™ DC

persistent memory.

high-performance analytic appliance

Open SAP HANA STUDIO >> CLICK ON SYSTEM CONNECTION –>It’ll connect Hana Studio to that SAP
system

DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory - Volatile data structure

Persistent Memory - Column Store Main

SAP HANA automatically detects persistent memory hardware and adjusts itself by automatically placing
these data structures on persistent memory, while all others remain in DRAM.

Using App Direct mode, persistent memory is especially suited for non-volatile data structures.

The separation of write-optimized delta and read-optimized main stores and the characteristics of both
are a perfect match to the respective strengths of DRAM and persistent memory.

Something quite unique to SAP HANA is the consequent implementation of its “in-memory first”
paradigm.

This means that a table must be loaded to main memory before any operation – read or write – can be
performed on this table. For the vast majority of tables – those in SAP HANAs column store – this
happens asynchronously after a restart of the database. The database is fully available during that time,
but queries to tables that are not yet fully loaded might experience reduced performance.

Column store data is retained across database and even server restarts, which decreases the loading
time significantly

Data is always saved from memory to disk at save points and data changes are written into redo log
files.So that in case of failure they can be used for recovery.

Databackup can be performed with database being online

DATABASE USER: Backup in SAP HANA can only be performed with a database user

BACKUP_ADMIN: This is the system privilege that the Database user used for performing the backup
should have

CATALOG READ: System privilege that the Database user need to have for collecting the information
required by the backup wizard

SAP HANA is configured in global.ini file

Log Mode

Normal
Overwrite

Legacy

SAP Hana database configuration files are not backed up automatically as a part of database backup .So
all the configuration files like global.ini,indexserver.ini,nameserver.ini,sapprofile.ini,daemon.ini and
other customer-specific configuration files needs to be backed up manually.

SAP HANA In-Memory Database wastes no time in loading the data from hard disk to RAM.

Depending on HANA Studio installation, not all features may be available. At the time of Studio
installation, specify the features you want to install as per the role.

SAP HANA Studio provides perspectives to work on the following HANA features.

To Perform HANA Database Administration and monitoring features, SAP HANA Administration Console
Perspective can be used.

Once you click on Finish, HANA system will be added to System View for administration and modeling
purpose. Each HANA system has two main sub-nodes, Catalog and Content.

System Monitor in HANA studio provides an overview of all your HANA system at a glance.

similar data types come together – Column store

Most important component of SAP HANA system is Index Server, which contains SQL/MDX processor to
handle query statements for database.

HANA system contains Name Server, Preprocessor Server, Statistics Server and XS engine, which is used
to communicate and host small web applications and various other components.

SAP HANA studio repository helps HANA developers to update current version of HANA studio to latest
versions. Studio Repository holds the code which does this update.

/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/global/hdb/data

/usr/sap/<SID>/SYS/global/hdb/log