SAP HANA multi-model processing

The QRC 04/2020 release of SAP HANA Cloud debuts the long-awaited JSON Document Store feature that SAP HANA Platform (on-premise) customers have been enjoying. When and why would I use this feature? The JSON Document Store is a dedicated, fully... Read More »

In this blog post I will describe how to calculate drive time distances and isochrones on street network data. Isochrones are areas reachable within a certain time threshold. They are helpful in many transportation-related planning scenarios: retail... Read More »

In this blog post, I describe the steps I followed to create a real-time reporting solution combining Geo spatial and Financial data. The data is federated from SAP S/4HANA®  Flexible Real Estate Management (RE-FX), SAP Geographical Enablement... Read More »

Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash   Dear SAP Community, over the past months and years, we have seen an increasing interest in SAP HANA’s multi-model processing capabilities, which is a term that covers HANA’s native Document Store,... Read More »

In this blog post I will (very briefly) highlight one use case for Voronoi tessellations – a feature that has been introduced with SAP HANA 2 SPS05 and SAP HANA Cloud. A Voronoi polygon around a given point covers the area that is closer to... Read More »

In the previous posts, we did the exploration and visualization of spatial and graph data in HANA dataframes. Now let’s’ use an example tying it all together. For that, we will use graphs to calculate the shortest paths and use... Read More »

Finding the k nearest butchers? (Photo by henry perks on Unsplash)   I have occasionally been asked for Geospatial Nearest Neighbour searches and its inverse the Reverse Nearest Neighbour. So I thought, I spend a couple of minutes to write a... Read More »

In the previous posts, we did exploration and visualization of spatial data in HANA dataframes. Now let’s’ move to another multi-model kind of data supported since hana_ml 2.6: connected data, or graphs. If you are not familiar with... Read More »

In previous blog posts, I’ve covered how to retrieve SAP Ariba data using the APIs available. Here, I will explain how this data can be stored in SAP HANA JSON Document Store in its raw format. For this, I will be using Python and the hdbcli... Read More »

In the previous post, we looked at the exploration of spatial data using HANA dataframes. But even more than regular data types geospatial results require visualization to be properly understood by a human. Let’s go… …and I am... Read More »