Summary
In this chapter, you learned the difference between row and column storage and when to use what. You got an insight of how we can have better analytics with help of column based tables. We discussed the basic architecture of the SAP HANA engine, which helped you understand which view would be processed in which engine. Later, we also did a comparative study of different modeling artifacts in SAP HANA. Modeling principle and guideline were also outlined with a brief on the different schemas available in SAP HANA. At the end of the chapter, you learned about SAP HANA Studio and a step-by-step way of creating package and delivery unit.
In the next chapter, you will learn how to load data into SAP HANA, explore various options of data load as per the data source, and understand real-time replication via SLT. You will learn how to use SAP HANA Studio and will have a quick look at the SAP business object data service and SAP direct extractor for data load.
