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SAP HANA 2.0 editions (2018) – by the SAP HANA Academy
Introduction
The Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA has been updated for 2018. In this blog, you will find a brief overview of the feature sets with references to SAP HANA Academy tutorial videos and playlists.
For the previous version of this blog, see
Editions
SAP HANA is available in three editions:
- Standard
- Enterprise
- Express (Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA, express edition 2.0 SPS 02)
SAP HANA Features
SAP HANA platform
Standard Edition
The SAP HANA standard edition comprises the core database, integration and application services, series data, plus a number of components that require additional installation. Some components require the usage the SAP HANA database lifecycle management tool ‘hdblcm’ (Platform Lifecycle Managment). Others are “powered by HANA” and make use of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools for installation:
- Dynamic Tiering (PLM)
- SAP HANA Accelerator for SAP ASE (PLM)
- SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA (ALM)
- Operational Process Intelligence (ALM)
- HANA Rules Framework (ALM)
- Data Warehousing Foundation (ALM)
There are no playlists on the SAP HANA Academy that specifically cover the core SAP HANA services but you will find most of them addressed in our library.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- SAP HANA Academy Library – by the SAP HANA Academy
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA and SAP HANA platform edition
Dynamic Tiering
SAP HANA dynamic tiering is a native big data solution for SAP HANA that adds smart, disk-based extended storage to your SAP HANA database with its own database, integration and application services feature sets.
Under the hood: SAP HANA dynamic tiering
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- SAP HANA dynamic tiering – delivering on low TCO warm data management, with impressive performance by Courtney Claussen
- Community blogs tagged with Dynamic Tiering
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
For developer tutorials, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering 2.0
SAP HANA Accelerator for SAP ASE
The accelerator for SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) adds analytics acceleration to the SAP ASE database engine leveraging SAP HANA.
SAP HANA Accelerator for SAP ASE Architecture
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Bring the Power of SAP HANA to SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise Applications by Former Member
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA accelerator for SAP ASE
For the documentation, see
SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA
SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA allows you to capture, analyze, and present your organization’s landscapes, strategies, requirements, processes, data, and other artifacts in a shared environment.
SAP EAD – Workspace
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Designing your agile DW with EA Designer – SAP HANA SQL Data Warehouse
- Community blogs tagged with SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA
For the product page, see
For the documentation, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – SAP Enterprise Architect Designer
Series
Series data is data collected at a measurable interval, such as time. You can use series data SQL statements to detect and forecast trends in a series.
CREATE COLUMN TABLE "InterpolationTable"
(ts_id VARCHAR(20), date DAYDATE, val DOUBLE)
SERIES(SERIES KEY(ts_id) PERIOD FOR SERIES(date)
EQUIDISTANT INCREMENT BY INTERVAL 1 DAY MISSING ELEMENTS ALLOWED);
SELECT CUBIC_SPLINE_APPROX(val, 'SPLINE_TYPE_NOT_A_KNOT')
OVER(SERIES TABLE "InterpolationTable") FROM "InterpolationTable";For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
- SAP HANA Series Data Developer Guide – SAP Help Portal
Operational Process Intelligence (incl HRF)
Includes SAP Operational Process Intelligence powered by SAP HANA and SAP HANA rules framework.
SAP Operational Process Intelligence – Business Scenario
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Enable Operational Process Intelligence on your HANA, express edition by Frank Schuler
- SAP HANA Rules Framework End-to-End Tutorial by Frank Schuler
- Enable the HANA Rules Framework on your HANA, express edition by Frank Schuler
- Community blogs tagged with SAP Operational Process Intelligence
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA rules framework
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
Data Warehousing Foundation
SAP HANA data warehousing foundation supports data management and distribution across complex SAP HANA landscapes.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- SAP SQL Data Warehousing with HANA by Klaus-Peter Sauer
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
Enterprise Edition
The SAP HANA enterprise edition comprises all of the above, adding:
- Spatial and Graph
- Data Privacy
- Search, Text Analysis, and Text Mining
plus a number of components that require additional installation:
- Predictive Analysis Library and R (PLM)
- SAP HANA Streaming Analytics (PLM)
- Enterprise Information Management
- Smart Data Integration
- Smart Data Quality
- SAP HANA Replication
- SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server,
- SAP Replication Server
Spatial and Graph
With SAP HANA Spatial, you can process, store and retrieve geospatial data. With SAP HANA Graph, you can process and visualize graphs, and execute built-in algorithms.
SAP HANA Graph Viewer
SAP HANA Spatial Map Client
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Graph Processing with SAP HANA 2 by Philip Mugglestone
- SAP HANA Spatial Resources by Sharon Om
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA geospatial content and graph
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
For developer tutorials, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – Graph: Getting Started
Data Privacy
Data privacy provides additional protection for sensitive and confidential data.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Protect your sensitive data using SAP HANA’s new dynamic data masking by Aleks Aleksic
- Community blogs tagged with Security
For the documentation, see
- Data Masking – SAP HANA Security Guide
Search, Text Analysis, and Text Mining
A feature set to search inside the database, gain insights from text analysis and conduct text mining. Previously, search, text analysis, and text mining were collectively referred to as SAP HANA advanced data processing (ADP).
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- SAP HANA Text Capabilities and SAP HANA Text Analysis by Esha Rajpal
- Integrating Twitter with SAP HANA for Text Analysis by Shivam Shukla
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA Text Analysis
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
- SAP HANA Text Analysis Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Text Mining Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Search Developer Guide
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – SAP HANA Search, Text Analysis, and Text Mining playlist
Predictive Analysis Library and R
As part of the application function library software development kit for SAP HANA, SAP HANA predictive analysis library (PAL) offers functions to perform classic and universal predictive analysis algorithms for a number of different data mining categories. Integration of the SAP HANA database with R allows you to use the R environment for specific statistical functions.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Working with the predictive analysis library in HANA 2.0 SPS02 by Philip Mugglestone
- Working with R integration in HANA 2.0 SPS02 by Philip Mugglestone
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – Getting Started with PAL
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – Getting Started with R Integration
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – Predictive Analysis Library
SAP HANA Streaming Analytics
SAP HANA streaming analytics (also known as SAP HANA smart data streaming) applies complex processing logic to identify patterns, calculate aggregates, detect problems, and generate alerts by combining real-time streams of data with the appropriate historic and reference data using an in-memory stream processing engine. Integrated machine learning capabilities provide SAP HANA streaming analytics with the ability to generate and use predictions in real time.
Under the hood: SAP HANA streaming analytics
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Streaming Analytics: Using Web IDE for Machine Learning by Lena Larionova
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA streaming analytics
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
For developer tutorials, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – SAP HANA Streaming Analytics
Enterprise Information Management
Bundles SAP HANA Smart Data Integration (Integration Services and Enterprise Semantic Services) and SAP HANA Smart Data Quality.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- HANA datasources – Real-Time Replication into BW using SAP HANA EIM Smart Data Integration by Former Member
- Enable Smart Data Integration on your HANA, express edition by Frank Schuler
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA smart data integration
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
For the documentation, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality
SAP HANA Replication
SAP HANA replication provides technologies for replicating data from any supported source system to the SAP HANA database: trigger-based data replication using SAP Landscape Transformation Replication Server, log-based replication using SAP Replication Server.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Community blogs tagged with SAP Landscape Transformation replication server and SAP Replication Server
There are currently no tutorial videos on this topic in the SAP HANA Academy.
For the documentation, see
SAP HANA Active/Active Read Enabled System Replication
The active/active read-enabled feature enhances the existing high availability and disaster recovery capabilities of SAP HANA system replication and enables you to use the secondary systems of SAP HANA system replication actively for read-intense workloads.
SAP HANA cockpit – System Replication
For a recent blog post on the topic, see
For the SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlists, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial – SAP HANA System Replication Active/active read-enabled
Express Edition
SAP HANA, express edition has its own Feature Scope Description document. Most of the standard services are included but obviously not the functionality that would make little sense for a developer edition, like distributed systems (32 GB memory restriction) and dynamic tiering (separate installation on an additional host). For the full list, see Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA, express edition 2.0 SPS 02.
For recent blog posts on the topic, see
- Community blogs tagged with SAP HANA, express edition.
For the video tutorial playlist, see
For developer tutorials, see
SAP HANA Academy video tutorial playlist – SAP HANA Express
More Information
SAP HANA Academy Playlists
- SAP HANA Express
- SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
- SAP HANA Series
- SAP Operational Process Intelligence
- SAP HANA Rules Framework (HRF)
- SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
- SAP HANA Graph
- SAP HANA Spatial
- Search, Text Analysis, and Text Mining
- Predictive Analysis Library
- R Integration for SAP HANA
- SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and Smart Data Quality
- SAP HANA Streaming Analytics
- SAP HANA System Replication
SAP Community Posts
- SAP HANA dynamic tiering – delivering on low TCO warm data management, with impressive performance
- Bring the Power of SAP HANA to SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise Applications
- Designing your agile DW with EA Designer – SAP HANA SQL Data Warehouse
- Enable Operational Process Intelligence on your HANA, express edition
- SAP SQL Data Warehousing with HANA
- Graph Processing with SAP HANA 2
- SAP HANA Spatial Resources
- Protect your sensitive data using SAP HANA’s new dynamic data masking
- SAP HANA Text Capabilities
- SAP HANA Text Analysis
- Integrating Twitter with SAP HANA for Text Analysis
- Working with the predictive analysis library in HANA 2.0 SPS02
- Working with R integration in HANA 2.0 SPS02
- HANA datasources – Real-Time Replication into BW using SAP HANA EIM Smart Data Integration
- Enable Smart Data Integration on your HANA, express edition
- Streaming Analytics: Using Web IDE for Machine Learning
- Making use of an Active/Active (read enabled) SAP HANA database in SAP S/4HANA
SAP Community Tags
- Dynamic Tiering
- SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, edition for SAP HANA
- SAP Operational Process Intelligence
- SAP HANA rules framework
- SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
- SAP HANA geospatial content
- graph
- Security
- SAP HANA Text Analysis
- SAP HANA smart data integration
- SAP HANA streaming analytics
- SAP Landscape Transformation replication server
- SAP Replication Server
- SAP HANA, express edition
Developer Tutorials
- SAP HANA, express edition tutorials
- SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering tutorials
- SAP HANA Spatial
- SAP HANA streaming analytics
Product Documentation (Guides)
- Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA
- Feature Scope Description for SAP HANA, express
- SAP HANA Series Data Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Spatial Reference
- SAP HANA Graph Reference
- Data Masking – SAP HANA Security Guide
- SAP HANA Text Analysis Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Text Mining Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Search Developer Guide
- SAP HANA Predictive Analysis Library (PAL)
- SAP HANA R Integration Guide
Product Documentation (Portal)
- SAP HANA platform
- SAP HANA Dynamic Tiering
- SAP HANA Accelerator for SAP ASE
- SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA
- SAP Operational Process Intelligence
- SAP HANA Rules Framework
- SAP HANA Data Warehousing Foundation
- SAP HANA Smart Data Integration and SAP HANA Smart Data Quality
- SAP HANA Streaming Analytics
- SAP Landscape Transformation
- SAP Replication Server
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Thanks a lot Denys !
Your tutorials and blogs are detailed. Please keep posting it. Thanks!
With SAP HANA 2.0 SP02 there was an edition of SAP HANA called “base edition” It seems that this edition is no longer available and was replaced with the “standard edition” in SAP HANA 2.0 SP03. Is this a correction assumption? SAP unfortunately does a horrible job providing a roadmap through the constant product munging and it is not possible to access the Feature Scope Description for any HANA version earlier than 2.0 SP03. Another question, if I am running HANA 2.0 in the cloud currently, I must be using the “standard edition”?
Hi Kent,
That's correct, the current Feature Scope Description no longer includes a base edition.
Editions and options primarily serve a licensing purpose and for this reason names and content change over time.
The SAP HANA service comes in two editions:
My colleague Philip just recorded a number of tutorial videos about DBaaS/HaaS, should you be interested:
Hi there,
Can you explain the difference between standard edition and platform edition?. Some documents mention platform edition and others standard edition and it's really confusing.
On my iinstallation, by running :
./hdblcm --action=print_component_list | grep -i edition
il get teh following output :
<caption>SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0</caption>
<caption>SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0</caption>
<caption>SAP HANA PLATFORM EDITION 2.0</caption>
Is standardd edition used?
Thanks,
Stofa.
Hi Stofa,
Good question.
The platform edition is a technical label. On the product availability matrix (PAM), this is the only edition listed. Other technical editions are the express edition and the cloud edition (SAP HANA Service).
The standard, enterprise, and runtime editions are licensing editions. Exactly what functionality is included in which version is documented in the Feature Scope Description (SAP Help Portal for SAP HANA). All these commercial editions are technically the platform edition.
Hi Denys van Kempen ,
unfortunatly the Feature Scope Description on the linked page only documents full (=standard and enterprise) editions and not the runtime edition. Do you a link describing exactly what functionality is included in the runtime ediion?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
Hi Wolfgang,
For more information about what features are included in which edition, see
More recently, SAP has also published a licensing guide, which you may find of interest:
Hi Denys
I understand this is an old thread, but wanted to get clarity about usage of Smart data access, hence the comment
Is the usage of SDA (Smart data access) to create Virtual tables in HANA based on a 3rd party database supported as part of HANA Standard edition ?
In the features list page that you shared in the comments section, I do see that "Data virtualization" is indeed listed as included with Standard edition, but the usage of SDA is not very clear
Kindly confirm, Thanks
Hi Ramya Vijayakumar,
SDA is built-in and included in the standard edition.
SDI is an add-on and requires installation (server and client) restricted to licensing (called Information Management option)
SAP HANA Cloud includes both SDA and SDI.
Hi Denys,
Thank you very much for the quick reply
Will that be the case for HANA Runtime edition as well
ie Is SDA and Data virtualization (creation of Virtual tables for remote databases) included as part of HANA Runtime edition
In the following link there is a comment that "Data virtualization" for Runtime edition is restricted to 'SAP applications' and hence the query
https://www.sap.com/products/hana/pricing.html?btp=1d3e4504-2f75-4368-8355-30611c2f6d3c
Thanks
Hi Ramya,
The runtime edition is not covered in the FSD.
Supported features are restricted to the UI of the application(s), not covering full SQL client access, which you would need to configure SDI/SDA.
Thanks Denys for the confirmation
Hi Denys,
My apologies for multiple follow-up questions but we are trying to finalize the solution and hence.
The existing SAP ECC system is running on Oracle, and uses Oracle DB links to fetch data from 3rd party Oracle DBs.
When we do a conversion of this ECC system to S/4, we had proposed to convert these Oracle DB links with SDA based remote connectivity
However with HANA Runtime licenses since we cannot utilize SDA, the other option is to use 'Secondary Database' connections to these 3rd party Oracle DBs from within the SAP UI layer
Not sure if this would still call for a Standard or Enterprise license
Could you please throw some light there, Thanks again
Thanks
Hi Ramya,
Your questions are always welcome. However, for licensing queries generally it is best to reach out to your account manager / commercial contact to get a proper confirmation.
My knowledge on this topic is limited to the publicly available FSD document.
Ramya Vijayakumar
Also it is not that black and white in regards to "not allowed to use SDA/SDI with runtime licenses". To be more precise, there is some gray area.
Example:
SAP BW is using a runtime license, it has the UI screens to define SDA/SDI connections and license wise your are fine using SDA/SDI.
Generally speaking, with a runtime license you are not allowed to use SQL statements or development tools to create tables. Database Views are fine! Creating tables via ABAP might be fine also.
In that sense, when you use SDA/SDI to access remote data via a calc view, it could be argued that this is for a view and hence part of the runtime license. But get the written consent first!
What is definitely not allowed is to use SDI to replicate an Oracle table into a new Hana table.
Either way, as Denys said, discuss that with your sales rep.
Thanks, Werner.
Thanks a lot Denys and Werner for your comments
The 'Secondary Database' connection that I mentioned more or less works similar to what Werner was explaining for BW
Will discuss and confirm with Account exec and proceed, Thanks.
Hello Denys,
Thanks for the tons of useful information. I now know that I have to download "HANA platform edition", when I want to migrate a system from Oracle,DB2,etc... or install a new one, and NOT search it in Databases...
That is quite confisung for me, but OK lets consider SAP HANA is not just a database.... 🙂
I just can't find information about "HANA DATABASE" download category. There you can find
HANA 1.0 and 2.0, and all files starting with IMDB prefix..
What is IMDB, and what are these files in this category?
Thank you!
IMDB = in-memory database
From note https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/2993533
Downloading Media:
Please note that all SAP HANA media on SAP Software Download Center are a self-contained full installation media - this applies for the media available in section Installations & Upgrades as well as for the media available in section Support Packages & Patches.
Section Installations & Upgrades only contains media for the very first revision of an SPS.
Section Support Packages & Patches only contains the latest revision of an SPS.
It is strongly recommended to use the most recent revision of an SPS, to avoid running into issues which are already known and fixed.
Therefore, by default, please refer to section Support Packages & Patches to download media for all components of SAP HANA for an installation/upgrade.
See chapter "Software Download" in the SAP_HANA_Master_Guide for the path to the media.