Takeaway

You should now understand in-memory technologies such as column-based storage, compression, no indices, delta merges, scale-out, partitioning, and parallelism. You also know how SAP HANA uses disks for its persistence storage.

You can now describe the various SAP HANA deployment scenarios, how SAP HANA uses in-memory technologies like columns, tables, and compression, and the various ways that SAP HANA can be deployed. We looked at the different advantages of each deployment method to help you decide which one fits your requirements best. Finally, we looked at how SAP HANA can also be deployed in the cloud and for multiple tenants.