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SAP HANA Vora software enables digital businesses to innovate and compete
through in-the-moment contextual awareness. It lets you use familiar online
analytical processing (OLAP) and programming languages to quickly analyze all
available data in enterprise and Hadoop systems in a coherent way, bridging the
divide between enterprise data and the onslaught of Big Data generated by todays
digital economy.
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SAP HANA Vora is an in-memory query engine that plugs into the Apache
Spark execution framework to provide enriched interactive analytics
on Hadoop.
What are the challenges The digital economy generates massive amounts of data from virtually
endless sources social networks, mobile apps, the Internet of Things, and
that companies face in
the like. Companies that want to tap into Big Data have experimented with
the digital economy?
Hadoop as a way to reduce storage costs. However, processing and analyzing data in Hadoop, especially within the context of existing enterprise
applications and analytics, have proved challenging for several reasons:
SAP HANA Vora enables OLAP analysis of Hadoop data through data hierarchy enhancements in Spark SQL and compiled queries for accelerated
processing. SAP HANA Vora helps make decisions more precise through
interactive and drill-down analysis across corporate and Hadoop data.
Data scientists and developers can now readily enrich their dataset in
Hadoop with corporate data in the SAP HANA database. It also reduces
complexity and cost by simplifying data access and processing across
SAP HANA and Hadoop.
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Free
Subscription-based
pricing, 24-month
term license
Subscription-based
pricing, 24-month term
license
Community support
only
SAP support
SAP support
Cannot be deployed
in production
Full use
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Products
What are the major
differences in Apache
Spark, SAP HANA Vora,
Description
and the SAP HANA
platform?
Key
capabilities
Apache Spark
SAP HANA
Vora
SAP HANA
platform
An open-source,
in-memory data
processing framework for Hadoop
In-memory
query engine
that plugs into
Spark execution
framework
In-memory data
and application
platform; fully
atomicity, consistency, isolation,
durability (ACID)
compliant to
support missioncritical deployment
requirements for
data centers and
cloud
For Hadoop
Unified
framework for
building data
pipelines
Streaming,
interactive SQL
queries, graph
computation,
and machine
learning
For enterprise
apps/analytics
with Hadoop
Enriched interactive query analysis of Hadoop
data with data
hierarchies and
time-dependent
hierarchies
Enhanced
mashup API for
easier access of
enterprise app
data in machine
learning
workloads
Compiled queries
for accelerated
queries across
nodes
For enterprise
apps/analytics
Core development
and deployment
platform for:
New generation
of applications
such as hybrid
transaction-
analytic
applications
Real-time analytics embedded
within applications or across
enterprise
analytic landscapes (data
mart + data
warehousing +
data lakes)
Acceleration of
existing application or business
intelligence
workloads
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SAP HANA Vora is designed to work synergistically with the SAP HANA
platform to provide end-to-end in-memory computing across enterprise
data in SAP HANA and Hadoop systems. Both the SAP HANA platform and
SAP HANA Vora are also independent products and can be used separately to support different use cases. The SAP HANA platform does not
require SAP HANA Vora to run, or vice versa.
SAP HANA Vora provides enriched features for the Spark execution framework, such as data hierarchies that enable drill-down processing of raw
data. SAP HANA Vora will also provide features such as time-dependent
hierarchies, unit-of-measure conversion, and currency conversion to make
data easier to use in business settings. For more detail on the differences
between SAP HANA Vora and Apache Spark, please see the comparison
table above.
You can deploy SAP HANA Vora on an existing Hadoop installation as long
as that installation meets the prerequisites stated in the installation
manual for SAP HANA Vora.
SAP HANA Vora will deliver the most value to people in the following
positions:
Business analysts can perform root cause analysis using interactive
queries across both business and Hadoop data to better understand
business context.
Data scientists can discover patterns by trying new modeling techniques
with a combination of business and Hadoop data, all without duplicating
data copies within data lakes.
Software developers can deploy a query engine within applications that
can span enterprise and Hadoop systems using familiar programming
tools.
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Financial services
Fraud detection Detect anomalies and rogue trades by analyzing
historical trends and current data simultaneously.
Risk mitigation Perform Monte Carlo simulations to produce distributions of possible outcome values with more precise context.
360-degree customer marketing Combine customer data with
unstructured data from social media, e-mail, Web site activity, and
discussion forums to better target sales and marketing.
Utilities
Predictive maintenance Optimize maintenance of transformers and
low tension devices through more complete historical information.
Virtual power plants Forecast consumption and production based on
weather, load profiles, and so forth with better context.
Analytics Perform powerful analytics for infrastructure optimization,
energy theft detection, load balancing, and more.
Archiving Keep archived smart meter, billing, supervisory control and
data acquisition (SCADA), and customer relationship management data
at the ready but a lower cost.
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Telecommunications
Network capacity planning Analyze call detail records (CDRs) and
network load to plan infrastructure expansion with greater precision.
Real-time bandwidth allocation Steer traffic and optimize network
quality of service (QoS) in real time to maintain the best service quality.
Cell phone service improvement Analyze and improve instances of
poor cellular service, such as dropped calls or poor audio, by adding in
relevant data.
Targeted network maintenance and upgrades Analyze the impact of
cable network congestion on churn, and identify which network
upgrades will produce greater incremental revenue.
Healthcare
360-degree patient view Converge test, genomic, archive, patient
care, and patient history from many sources into a unified view.
Insurance and Medicare fraud analysis Analyze vast bodies of
collected claims material to uncover fraud.
Confirm diagnosis with collected literature Bring together patient
data with up-to-date journal and medical literature data in real time to
improve diagnoses and treatment plans.
Improve research Analyze more data from more studies in a
converged environment for statistical clues to patient outcomes
To find out more about SAP HANA Vora, visit us online at www.sap.com/hana-vora.
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