What is SAP HANA?

What is SAP HANA?

• An in SSD Database Management System
• An in Disk Database Management System
• An in Memory Database Management System
• An in Cloud Database Management System

EXPLANATION

SAP HANA is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP SE.
Its primary function as database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, it performs advanced analytics (predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing) and includes ETL capabilities as well as an application server.

SOURCE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP_HANA