Hello and welcome to the SAP HANA Academy.
My name is Denys van Kempen
and in this video tutorial series, we will discuss
SAP HANA 2.0 installation and update.
The topic of this video tutorial is editions and options.
On the SAP Help Portal (help.sap.com), under Technology Platform, SAP HANA,
we find this document: Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA.
This is the place to read up about the different versions, bundles, and packages,
that are available for HANA.
As you can see, the document starts with a note:
The editions, options, and additional capabilities mentioned in this document are subject to
change without prior notice.
Additional license bundles and price list items might be available.
To use SAP HANA editions, options, and additional capabilities in a productive system, you must
purchase the appropriate software license from SAP.
For more information, refer to your SAP contact.
In other words, with editions and options we enter the wonderful of software licensing.
This is not about technology.
The HANA from the platform edition is the same HANA as in the enterprise edition.
The only thing that changes is the license.
So, what do we got?
If we scroll down a bit, and look at the illustration, we can see that we have four editions:
base edition, spatial, platform, and enterprise.
Some of you are probably thinking now
and what about SAP HANA, express edition - for developers? Not listed here.
Well, the same is the case with the SAP HANA, Edge edition:
for SMEs: small and medium-sized business.
You may have heard about runtime editions, as well.
Well, there we have it:
there have been different editions in the past and there will be different editions
in the future, so this list is not complete.
So let me repeat: For more information, refer to your SAP contact.
In other words, call Sales.
Then, if we look at the SAP HANA options, you can see that we have dynamic tiering,
smart data streaming, smart data quality and smart data integration, real-time replication,
Operation Process Intelligence, and the IoT foundation for SAP HANA.
I will discuss all the options in detail.
But first, let’s start with editions.
They are like Russian dolls, the bigger the box, the more functionality
and the smallest one is SAP HANA, base edition.
Note the comma, branding insists on a comma here.
Includes database services, integration services and application services.
If you click on the box, you get the full list.
Database services includes all the features: compression, partitioning, multitenant, system
replication, modeling, encryption.
So, this is not covered by licensing.
With other database vendors, for example, you will need to get a license if you want
scale out to multiple nodes, a distributed system; a cluster some would say.
Or you need a license, if you want to use partitioning or encryption.
Well, not with HANA - all the database core functionality is included in the base edition.
Then we have Integration services: connectivity and load data.
You can connect to any data source or database with ODBC, JDBC, ADO.net, Python, including
data virtualisation technology.
So, you can connect to Hadoop with just the metadata stored in HANA - this uses a feature
called smart data access - and then under application services we find the built-in
application server, HANA XS, both the classic and the advanced model.
So, you can develop applications using JavaScript (Node.js) or Java.
Let’s return to our overview.
Spatial edition: bundles Spatial with the Data Warehousing Foundation.
Spatial was introduced with SAP HANA 1.0 SPS 06, so about three years ago, May 2013
(almost four).
Allows you to use the in-memory technology of HANA to analyze geographical information.
If you are interested in Spatial, there is a playlist on the SAP HANA Academy.
Here in the Development section, 17 videos, with a new one for HANA 2.
There is also a playlist for the Data Warehousing Foundation: under Provisioning.
Four new videos were added for HANA 2 that cover the topic of native DSO, native data
store objects: creating an NDSO, preparing for data load, and loading an NDSO using flow
graphs - all great stuff - and then there is also this blog on DWF, data warehousing foundation.
You can follow the tag, for the latest updates.
So, that’s the Spatial edition bundling Data Warehousing Foundation and Spatial.
Then we have the Platform edition.
This is the core edition.
Covers all built-in functionality.
Starting with Series.
Collected at measurable intervals.
You can use series data SQL statements to detect and forecast trends.
Of course, we also have a playlist on Series.
Just three videos, it is not a very big topic; with some code snippets on Github
to help you get started.
With Graph, you can model different kind of networks and linked data.
If you are learn more, check out the Graph playlist.
With a getting started on SPS 12 but also two new videos on HANA 2.0
with calculation view pattern matching.
Predictive Analysis Library and R, another core feature.
The PAL offers functions to perform predictive analysis algorithms for a number of different
data mining categories and you can integrate HANA with the open source R environment
to access an even larger library of functions.
The advantage of PAL inside HANA, of course, is that you can run it all in-memory.
With R-intergration, you will need to allow for some data going back and forth, so this
will be a bit slower.
Massive playlist on the Academy for predictive.
Philip Mugglestone is our data scientist, par excellence.
132 videos and counting.
Plus videos for the Automated Predictive Library and the Application Function Modeler for Predictive.
and R integration, as mentioned.
They are all in this section here.
Then we have Text.
Text Search, Text Analysis and Text Mining.
In HANA 1.0 SPS 12, this was the Advanced Data Processing option.
In HANA 2.0, this is part of the platform edition.
The technology behind it is much older.
Goes back, in fact, to Xerox PARC, just like the mouse and graphical UI.
It was commercialised by a company called Inxight, acquired by Business Objects,
acquired by SAP.
Tahir (Bob) has recorded a number of videos about Text Analysis, Mining and Search: 34
as of today, covering all aspects.
Then we have the - comma - enterprise edition.
Includes the Enterprise Architecture Designer - comma - edition for SAP HANA.
This is the web version of PowerDesigner, Sybase technology, reengineered a bit to work
with HANA.
Comes as a delivery unit.
It is a separate install.
This is for the data architect.
Allows you to capture, analyze and present your organisation’s landscapes, strategies,
requirements, processes and data.
There will be a playlist about EA Designer soon on the Academy.
For more information, see the documentation on the Help Portal.
Another Enterprise feature is the HANA Rules Framework.
Enables building solutions with automated decision services.
Again, installs as a delivery unit.
On the HRF playlist, you will find all the tutorial videos you need to get started.
And there is also an excellent blog by Noam Gilady, that pretty much covers all you need
to know.
Data Integration, sorry, smart data integration.
Enables to perform real-time and bulk data movement as well as data federation.
It is a big topic, really.
Again, very mature technology.
Goes back to ActaWorks ETL tooling, acquired by Business Objects, acquired by SAP.
Bob has recorded a large number of videos on this topic: 88, including data quality,
and for HANA 2, he has added about 20 just on WebIDE and Flowgraphs.
How to setup, load data and design the whole data integration.
Enterprise Semantic Services: listed here separately, can also be part of Data Integration.
On the SDI playlist, there are three videos about ESS, introduced with HANA 1, SPS 11.
Finally, SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server.
This is ABAP technology.
Has been around for years.
Performs trigger-based replication on the SAP Business Suite, for example.
So you can synchronise your business data in real time, while keeping the data transfer
volume to a minimum.
You will find one or two videos on the Academy about LT replication server and there is whole
community on sap.com for SLT, blogs, and so on.
For the HANA express edition, not listed here, you can also go to sap.com
And there is a full playlist with tutorial videos about this topic.
So much for the editions, let’s continue with the options.
No Russian dolls here.
Options are not interrelated.
You can pick one, two or more, as you wish.
Starting with Dynamic Tiering: native big data solution for SAP HANA that adds disk-based
extended storage.
Behind it is a combination of Sybase IQ technology, also columnar storage in-memory, and smart
data access for data virtualisation but then completely integrated with a single set of
tooling for installation, administration, single backup, monitoring and so on.
The very first version was called extended storage for BW, business warehouse - HANA
1 SPS 7, 2013 - and you will still find some traces of this.
The service running on the HANA system is called the esserver, extended storage server,
for example.
Lots of features, of course.
IQ is very rich and mature technology as well, obviously.
And there is a playlist on the topic with 32 videos, covering most aspects
from SPS 09, when it was released, up to HANA 2, the current version.
Smart Data Streaming: provides streaming analytical capabilities for the HANA platform.
There is a section on the Help Portal under HANA options with Installation information,
security, administration, development, and references: huge topic.
Also covered on the Academy, of course: 45 videos.
From SPS 09, when it was released, to HANA 2.
Similar to IQ and the technology behind it, this time, is from Sybase Event Stream Processor.
Then we get smart data quality and smart data integration.
We already talked about data integration for the enterprise edition and that includes this option.
Data quality is related.
Also goes back to Business Objects and before, and it is included in the same Academy playlist
with SDI.
Real-time replication is an option that bundles several replication technologies.
Trigger-based replication, this we already discussed, concerns SAP Landscape Transformation
Replication Server, SLT.
Log-based replication.
SAP Replication Server, and before that, Sybase Replication Server.
Again, mature technology.
Replicates at the physical log level, unlike SLT, so it can be used for any or almost any data source.
Does not have to understand what is going on a logical level, like trigger-based replication.
Also included is SAP HANA Remote Data Sync.
And here we are using SQL Anywhere to enable synchronisation of remote databases
with a master database.
And all three of them together form this real-time replication option.
Then we have SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA and it is new, as an option.
The product has been around for some time, though.
For more information, see the product home page on SAP.com, and there is also a community,
which has links to a playlist on YouTube on the sap.com Technology channel.
You can find the link here.
Then finally, we have the IoT foundation for SAP HANA.
Internet of Things Bundles a couple of products.
With HANA 1, this was the IoT edition for SAP HANA.
Extended storage, well, that’s Dynamic Tiering Real-time processing, well, that’s Smart
Data Streaming.
Remote Data Synch, we also talked about.
IoT SIM Management for SAP HANA.
Used to be an option by itself.
Enables you to manage SMS data and usage.
In-memory processing of big data, on Hadoop links to SAP HANA Vora: a product by itself.
Bob just uploaded 14 new videos on Vora 1.3, latest version.
Covers all the new topics.
And there are playlists for earlier versions, as well.
Then the last one, SAP Dynamic Edge Processing: manage plant maintenance, inventory, and materials
without a connection.
Here is the product home page.
Runs on SAP ERP, so to be honest, we have left the domain of SAP HANA a bit with this.
So it is time to warp it up.
So much for Editions and Options.
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