What is SAP HANA 2.0?

SAP HANA 2.0 is an evolution of the existing platform that gives you access to a stable, highly available
and secure data environment for all your applications. SAP HANA 2.0 transforms database and data
management with enhanced high availability, security and workload management, enterprise modeling,
data integration, and data quality. And, if you are considering developing or deploying modern
applications that access any data from anywhere and combine transactions with advanced analytical
processing, SAP HANA 2 also transforms application development and analytical intelligence. It comes
with enhanced analytical processing engines for text, spatial, graph, and streaming data, improved
application server capabilities and development tools.
Database management and database have been improved with high security, workload management
and availability along with Data Integration, Data Quality and Enterprise Modelling.
SAP HANA 2.0 has revolutionized analytical intelligence an application development. There are highly
significant changes in terms of analytical processing engines for spatial, text, graph and streaming data
along with Enhanced Development tools and application server tools.

What's new in SAP HANA 2.0?

These key enhancements in HANA can help IT organizations transform and thrive.
Database Management – ensure business continuity with high-availability, security, workload
management, and administration enhancements.
Data Management – leverage all data regardless of where it resides, with enhancements to enterprise
modeling, data integration, data quality, and dynamic tiers.
Analytical Intelligence – visibility into applications through enhanced analytical-processing engines for
text, spatial, graph, and streaming data.
Application Development – build and deploy next-generation applications with enhanced capabilities
for the application server and expanded development tool sets and language coverage.

New features in SAP HANA 2.0:

 Increased automation and better business continuity with enhancements in workload management,
system replication, dynamic tiering, and active/active read-enabled.
 Usability enhancements to improve ease of use, by simplifying data movement modeling, tenant
management, encryption, and user group management.
 Enhanced SAP HANA analytics with Google Tensor Flow integration for Machine Learning, and added
improvements in Text analysis, Graph and Spatial.
 Expanded application development flexibility with new GO language driver, expanded SQL/SQL Script,
and SAP HANA express edition support for Smart Data Integration.

How Does SAP HANA 2.0 Simplify SAP Administration?

The SAP HANA cockpit has been revamped to simplify administration, merging the Database Control
Center and the HANA 1.0 cockpit, and adding brand new functionality.
This enhances SAP’s stability in major demand surges. Although companies running SAP HANA should
carefully size HANA, keep track of resource demands, and add new resources as needed, in reality, many
companies don’t actually upgrade HANA until it starts actually running out of resources, which can result
in instability, sluggish performance and even costly outages. This new feature will provide an extra
check, should demand outgrow provisioning.

What Does SAP HANA 2.0 Do for Database Management?

SAP HANA 2.0 provides new database management functionality to help you maintain business
continuity, high availability and performance. SAP HANA production runs on physical or virtual hardware
called the primary system, and uses a process called System Replication to create a backup copy on the
secondary system, which can either be located in the same data center (high availability) or another
data center (disaster recovery).

SAP HANA 2.0 also makes better use of secondary system resources. In addition to replicating primary
system data, it can now also be used for reporting. The Log Replay – Read Access mode allows HANA to
look up data in that landscape, using its resources to speed read-intensive applications.

How Does SAP HANA 2.0 Boost HANA Security?

SAP HANA 2.0 has significant security improvements. SAP HANA 1.0 gained the ability to encrypt the
data volume (data stored on disk) with SP, and application data, but could not change the log volume —
a record of changes in the data volume since the last save point, used to restore HANA in the event of a
crash. Although SAP HANA 1.0 is very secure when patched correctly and maintained by a talented cyber
security services team, this still represented a potential vulnerability, where an attacker could
theoretically obtain sensitive information.

SAP HANA 2.0 adds log volume encryption, and makes it easier to manage encryption keys for data, log,
and application encryption. You can use SQL statements to upgrade all encryption keys, and back them
up on a dedicated, password-protected file. SAP has also added a system privilege called ENCRYPTION
ROOT KEY ADMIN to supervise administration of encryption.

SAP HANA 2.0 also makes it easier to handle group authorization and privileges. SAP security
administration controls have been improved with the SAP HANA cockpit. For example, admins can
create users and configure their privileges, right from the cockpit.

Are There Other SAP HANA 2.0 Improvements?

SAP HANA 2.0 also has a range of significant enhancements that will increase its power for end users
and developers. SAP HANA analytics — already a major HANA strongpoint — are even better, with
improved search and filtering functionality, text analytics, graph data processing, and machine learning.
Other SAP HANA 2.0 decrease the time and cost of developing new applications.

HANA 2.0

2018 Planned Innovations

Simplify operations with a modern, in-memory database platform in the cloud or on premise.

Administration
Administration and monitoring

 SAP Fiori launchpad integration to enhance the user experience, allowing a role-based entry
point to database management tasks and UI personalization to focus on the most relevant daily
operations
 Apply configurations centrally to multiple SAP HANA systems, providing a method to standardize
parameters across SAP HANA databases that adheres to operational, performance, and security
corporate benchmarks
 Enterprise report generation, enabling administrators to deliver easily consumable information
for analysis and support in decision-making
 High availability for SAP HANA cockpit, enhancing its reliability and ensuring uninterrupted SAP
HANA administration and monitoring
 Improved large-scale deployment support, allowing administration and monitoring of hundreds
of SAP HANA databases

Database explorer

 Execute long-running tasks and tasks across multiple systems

 Support smart data access in the database explorer catalog
 Use SQL statement library

Capture and replay

 Enhancements for capture, backup, restore, and initialization

 Table placement optimizer tool for analysing table placement and replication options
 UI/UX enhancements for better error overview, grouping, and statement analysis

Workload analyzer

 Performance store for increased data retention

  Tighter integration with workload management features
 Predictive capabilities for proactive system administration

SQL analyzer

 Advanced SQLScript support

 Planning for stability management
 Enhancements for usability, layout, and importing/exporting data sets

Persistence

 Multiple data volume partitions – IO workload optimization by offering the option to have
multiple LUNs (storage places) instead of one Big Data volume

Supportability

 Visualization of network activity for improved monitoring of SAP HANA system replication
environments
 Identification of top memory consumers and enhanced workflow when analysing memory-
related issues
 Faster RTE dump file creation to minimize downtime and improve dump file content consistency
 Integration of thread sample snapshots and wait-state semaphore names in RTE dump files to
better analyse problems
 Tracing on a per-database-node level to better understand how nodes balance overall
processing

Workload management

 Improve current admission control implementation with tighter integration with workload
classes
 Improve implicit workload balancing on database level between instances/tenants on the same
hardware

Data Center Architect

Multitenant database containers

 Fast database reset

 Reinitialization system database with its tenants

Backup and recovery

 Backup configuration management in the SAP HANA cockpit

Infrastructure

 Non-volatile memory support such as Intel 3D Xpoint – SAP HANA introduces new ways of
operating data (main indexes) on these new memory devices

High availability and disaster recovery

 Multitarget replication in SAP HANA system replication

 Invisible takeovers for SAP HANA system replication
 Time travel option for fixing logical errors
 Active/active support for multitier system replication to allow active read-enabled accesses to
tiers beyond the first secondary host in a multitier environment

Expanded SAP Landscape Management 3.0 integration (MDC support, backup, …)

 Innovate with confidence – data security and compliance for your digital transformation journey

Security Architect
Advanced data protection

 Data anonymization
 Column encryption
 User group extensions, such as password policies per user group
 Auditing extensions, such as SQL interface for XSA audit logging integration

Simple and secure operations

 Additional security management options in SAP HANA cockpit

 Extended LDAP integration, such as automatic user provisioning and LDAP authentication

Securing application scenarios

 XSA/HDI: simplification of SSL/TLS setup, user and role administration

Data Architect
Designing, implementing, and managing the corporate data architecture. and integration

Enterprise architecture (enterprise data model)

 Enterprise architecture designer as a service (cloud solution)

 Conceptual data models
 Transport repository content; Git client support
 Enhanced extension and configuration capabilities
  Prebuilt industry data warehousing models and sample data for entire data platform in SAP EA
Designer

Data modeling

 SAP Web IDE: complete feature parity; migration support to SAP HANA deployment
infrastructure (one-step migration)
 Support for multijoin nodes and non-equi-joins, visualization of graphs, enhanced graph
algorithm
 Generation of calculation views based on SAP HANA enterprise architecture model
 Integration with SAP BW/4HANA modelling

Data management (physical data model)

 Dynamic tiering: “synopsis based pruning” for non-partition-key columns in multistore tables
 Dynamic tiering: back-end performance improvements
 Dynamic tiering: provide end-to-end tracing for DDL and DML commands
 Blockchain integration
 Query execution: optimization for OLTP and OLAP queries; parallelization and data pipelining
 Partitioning + scale-out: unbalanced two-level range-partitioning (optimizes the number of
partitions in a scale-out environment)
 Scale-out: table placement optimizer
 System-versioned tables: database-managed table history

Data Integrator
SAP HANA smart data access

 Support for spatial data types for advanced analytics

 Support for Google Big Query and Teradata ver.15
 Optimized data transfer within SAP HANA and across data sources
 Performance enhancements and optimizations in SAP Vora connectivity

SAP HANA smart data integration

 SAP Data Hub integration

 Enhanced connectivity, support for: SAP S/4HANA ABAP core data services views, SAP HANA-to-
SAP HANA connections in the cloud, batch data load from IBM
 DB2 iSeries systems, change data capture for z/OS
 LDAP-based single sign-on (SSO) for compatible connections
 Support for schema-level multitenancy: secure schema-level access within MDC for multiple
tenants
SAP HANA smart data quality

 Cleansing and geocoding: integration with SAP Data Quality Management, microservices for
location data
 New best-record transform to build the best record by combining data from a group of matching
records
 Match transform enhancements: candidate selection and relational matching

Advance Analyst
This persona will see ever-increasing depth and breadth for multimodel processing, storing, and
analyzing a wide range of data types. Enhancements will make analytics more open and easy to use and
will extend the existing information discovery capabilities of efficiently working with a single copy of
real-time data, resulting in greater number of real-world use cases.

Predictive and machine learning

 Enhanced integration with Tensor Flow further expanding machine intelligence

 Automated selection of algorithm parameters, thereby increasing productivity for PAL users

Spatial

 New functions to support linear referencing, geometry simplification, and concave hull
 ESRI support for SAP HANA as a geodatabase

Streaming analytics

 Support for IBM Power Systems

 Additional machine learning capabilities

Text

 Native SAP Fiori UI for faceted search and support spatial data types for search
 Support for custom content in cloud microservices for text analysis

Graph and hierarchies

 Enhancements to Cypher (text search, multiple match paths) and Graph Script (spatial data
types, paths)
 Improved incremental load and aggregation for hierarchies

Document store

 Improved workload management

Application development: Developer
Combine the powerful SAP HANA in-memory processing with a microservice application server/Web
server/basis for an application development platform inside SAP HANA while minimizing architectural
“layers” to produce a low cost of ownership and ease of getting started

SAP Fiori default programming model for XSA

 OData V4 with OData4SAP metadata extensions

 CDX – next generation of core data services with core data services module in SAP Web IDE

Continued SQL/SQLScript enhancements

Tooling and usability

 SAP HANA application lifecycle management for XSA and improved CTS+ integration and zero
downtime deployment
 Streamlined on-premise/cloud-based interoperability
 Conceptual data model support for SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer

Expanded application server capabilities

 Fully supported Python module in XSA

2019 Product Direction

Database management
 Elastic cloud capacity – pay-per-use – with systems that can expand capacity when and where
needed, and likewise reduce capacity to optimize efficient use of resources
 Cloud storage for backup and recovery
 Intelligent and proactive tuning and automation of database administration with machine
learning and predictive capabilities
 Simplified multitenant operations
 Extended capture and replay capabilities
 Simplified and extended comprehensive data access control, security, and compliance
 Encryption key management extensions
 Integration of 3rd-party applications in the SAP HANA cockpit

Data management – data architect

 Strengthening the description, modelling, and planning of the complete enterprise architecture
 Strengthened graphical modelling for calculation views
 Scalable and cost-effective data distribution and data storage options with enhanced data aging
support for 100TB+ SAP HANA systems
  Tighter integration of SAP Vora as a data processing extension for SAP HANA (smart elastic
scale-out)
 Native Hadoop integration as a cost-effective multistorage tier for cold data (PB+)

Data management – data integrator

 Enhanced Big Data capabilities, improved cloud readiness and usability
 Enhanced data cleansing capabilities to additional domains, enhanced data enrichment from
3rd-party sources for master data and transactional data
 Extended processing for data types and governance functionality

Analytical intelligence
 Further strengthening of an open, parallelized, machine learning platform that operates on
large-scale data with high performance, thereby ensuring real-time intelligent applications
 Support for tiered storage for processing structured and unstructured data types with varied
size and complexity

Application development
 Enhanced hybrid (on-premise/cloud) development tools and deployment
 Continuous support for new and extended languages

2020 Product Visions

SAP will deliver a comprehensive, end-to-end open data management platform for data storage,
processing, and management across hybrid, on-premise, and cloud environments for all types of
information of any size. We will support enterprise systems and a new generation of intelligent apps in a
way that ensures customers can achieve increased governance, compliance, and insight. We will help
customers achieve quicker ROI through hardware innovations, automation, common tooling, data
services, and choice of deployment options.