SAP HANA, short for “High-Performance Analytic Appliance” is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed by SAP.

An in-memory database means all the data is stored in the memory (RAM). No time wasted in loading the data from hard-disk to RAM or storing the data in hard-disk.

SAP HANA is equipped with Multiengine Query Processing Environment which supports relational as well as graphical and text data within the same system

SAP HANA is developed in C++ language.