SAP HANA Architecture and Implementation: Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers

"SAP HANA Architecture and Implementation"

Designed for technology professionals, architects, and enterprise strategists, "SAP HANA Architecture and Implementation" offers an authoritative guide to mastering the SAP HANA platform. Beginning with the evolution and adoption of SAP HANA, the book meticulously explores the underlying principles—such as in-memory computing, columnar storage, and massive parallelism—that set SAP HANA apart from traditional database architectures. Readers will gain a comprehensive understanding of how SAP HANA converges transactional and analytical processing, integrates seamlessly into the broader enterprise landscape, and supports today’s most demanding workloads.

Delving deep into system architecture, the book examines critical SAP HANA components, including system and node topologies, internal server mechanisms, persistence and memory management, and advanced resource governance. Coverage extends into high-availability and disaster recovery architectures, optimized data distribution, and efficient workload management. Subsequent chapters provide hands-on, best-practice guidance for data modeling, advanced SQLScript programming, and leveraging HANA’s native support for complex analytical scenarios encompassing graph, spatial, and text data. Security and governance receive thorough treatment, with expert insights on authentication, authorization, encryption, auditing, and the operational hardening required for enterprise compliance.

Beyond deployment models—on-premises, cloud, and hybrid—the book offers a complete perspective on data integration, life cycle management, and extensibility through native application development, REST APIs, and alignment with SAP’s Business Technology Platform. Readers are equipped with cutting-edge approaches to monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting, and performance tuning. The concluding sections give an in-depth view into large-scale implementations, emerging trends like AI and data mesh, and concrete pathways for professional growth and certification, making this book an indispensable resource for anyone seeking to lead successful SAP HANA initiatives.

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Release date

Ebook: June 3, 2025