Solving the Unsolvable

Abstract

In the past decade, the evolution of hardware—in particular the steep scale-up in main memory and the massive parallelization within single systems—has enabled us to do things that were simply impossible before. We can now process huge amounts of data in almost zero time. Big Data comes in many forms, be it structured enter prise data (e.g., master data and transaction data), sensor data (e.g., geospatial data and sensors in the Internet of Things), or unstructured data (e.g., websites and social media). The capability to process and combine all three of these data types is one of HANA’s unique features.