SAP and IBM test SAP in-memory appliance software

Jake Klein, vice president of data and analytic engines at SAP, says that the test scenarios were based on the query workload requirements typical for SAP users' ERP reporting. They accessed data in the sales delivery database tables for SAP and delivered real-time analytics via SAP's optimised software and hardware engine. "By dramatically outperforming traditional disk-based systems on analytical queries, SAP HANA [its in-memory computing applicance] opens new business opportunities and makes real-time business possible for the first time," comments Klein. "With the incredible performance offered by SAP HANA as the foundation, we can develop a whole new generation of applications that offer unparalleled speed and insight," he adds. "In a review of the test specification, test runs and outputs, I find that SAP HANA performance test is a valid determination of data warehouse query performance on in-memory test databases up to and including four terabytes of realistically generated test data," says Richard Winter, president and founder of WinterCorp, which carried out the independent testing. "The test data values are closely patterned after real SAP data, and the test queries are similar to operational and analytical business intelligence queries that occur in practice," he says.