SAP HANA Data Lake — Features and Benefits
Primarily, a data lake is a repository for all data types, from unstructured, semi-structured, to structured ones. The data can be accessed and examined at any time for taking critical data-based business decisions. While this has been the traditional format and utility of data lake, in the modern business environment where petabytes of data usage is common, the requirement for data lakes that improve performance and lowers costs have grown exponentially. Existing data lakes are unable to meet this demand by organizations.
This is where SAP data lake comes into the picture meeting all the requirements of modern-day businesses.
What is SAP data lake?
In the spring of 2020, SAP launched HDL — HANA Data Lake — as a part of its affordable cloud-based services. Its affordable storage options include SAP HANA native storage facilities and an in-built relational SAP data lake. Hence, SAP IQ database in the cloud offers processing capabilities that are of the same speed and performance as Azure or Amazon Web Service.
Users get to save on data storage charges as the data lake has a 10x data compression feature. SAP data lake can be optimized in a new HANA Cloud instance or enabled in the existing cloud instance. In both cases, additional storage facilities can be added whenever required. Other options offered match typical cloud-based environments such as encryption of data, audit logging, security, and tracking of data access.
Features of the SAP data lake
The optimized features of the SAP data lake have made it the preferred choice of most organizations. Given here are some of them.
•SAP data lake is not dependent on HANA DB. It can seamlessly scale up to petabytes of data whenever required. Hence businesses do not have to invest in additional hardware and software when there is a surge in demand for storage.
•The data lake is based on advanced and cutting-edge SAP IQ technology.
•As with all cloud-based services, SAP data lake provides quick accessibility, efficient data analysis, and high-speed ingestion.
•Links up without a hitch to other cloud services such as Amazon Web Service S3 and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage.
•SAP Data Lake can be automatically administered with the HANA Cloud
These high-tech features allow SAP data lake to offer a wide range of very useful features.
Benefits of SAP data lake
•SAP data lake facilitates quick data ingestion regardless of whether the data type is unstructured, semi-structured, or structured from on-premises or cloud-based sources.
•Since it has a single access layer in HANA Cloud, SAP data lake is easy to configure and use.
•Low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) which is a financial estimate to help you decide the direct and indirect cost of the SAP data lake.
•The data lake has pyramid-shaped columnar architecture, making for smooth and highly analytic data processing .
The SAP data lake is useful for organizations needing cost-effective and high-performing data lake solutions.
