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With a scanning speed of several gigabytes per millisecond, <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> makes it possible to calculate aggregates<br />

on large amounts of data on-the-fly with high performance. This eliminates the need for materialized aggregates<br />

in many cases, simplifying data models, and correspondingly the application logic. Furthermore, with on-the fly<br />

aggregation, the aggregate values are always up-to-date unlike materialized aggregates that may be updated only<br />

at scheduled times.<br />

2.2 <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> Database Architecture<br />

A running <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> system consists of multiple communicating processes (services). The following shows the<br />

main <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> database services in a classical application context.<br />

Such traditional database applications use well-defined interfaces (for example, ODBC and JDBC) to<br />

communicate with the database management system functioning as a data source, usually over a network<br />

connection. Often running in the context of an application server, these traditional applications use Structured<br />

Query Language (SQL) to manage and query the data stored in the database.<br />

The main <strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> database management component is known as the index server. The index server contains<br />

the actual data stores and the engines for processing the data. The index server processes incoming SQL or MDX<br />

statements in the context of authenticated sessions and transactions.<br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong> <strong>Developer</strong> <strong>Guide</strong><br />

<strong>SAP</strong> <strong>HANA</strong><br />

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