SAP HANA Data Lake
Traditional forms and methods of managing data and utilizing them are becoming outdated and even redundant as data grows and the data types diversify. Such developments can have a debilitating effect on the efficiency of data-dependent organizations.
To stay on top of their business, companies are responding by implementing data lake technologies. Vizio is your ideal partner with years of experience in Data Lake Technologies.
Why create a Data Lake?
A data lake can help companies exploit the potential of newer and more diverse data types, simultaneously helping make legacy systems more efficient by offloading capacity to the newer, more flexible infrastructure. A Data Lake can give you unimaginable advantages that allow you to store petabyte volumes of data, provide cost-effective high capacity, integrate multiple types and forms of data, and build data science applications.
This image was originally taken from SAP’s What is Data Lake article.
Challenges
- Migration to the cloud-based data lake can be complex, time-consuming, and repetitive.
- Data Management - without understanding and keeping track of what is in your data lake, your lake gets unclean and loses its quality resulting in a murky data swamp.
- Storage costs can increase over time as more and more data is uploaded into cloud data lakes.
- Lack of budget planning can have serious consequences slowing down or even halting the movement to the data lake.
- Analytics and their relevance to your business decisions are a serious challenge.
Benefits
- Ingest any data from cloud or on-premises data sources
- Easy to setup and use
- Fast analytic processing through columnar-storage
- Provides an additional and efficient storage layer for structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data managed in HANA Cloud
- Provides SQL access directly on structured data lake files
- Allows analysis of large data sets without loading into Data Lake IQ
- Low TCO for data analysis
- Provisioned and administered with SAP HANA Cloud instance
- Highly optimized SDA connection with HANA database
- Scales independently of HANA DB
- High-speed ingestion
- Access to Cloud Service Provider cloud storage
- IQ disk-based database technology with columnar-storage
- Architecture
- Data lake IQ service is automatically enabled and fully managed
- SQL access the to data through HANA database or directly in the data lake
- Provides a consistent API and file naming across hyperscalers
- Serves as a landing zone for data from external sources
- Data lake files can be shared with other tools
- Customer is charged only for data stored in HANA data lake files
- Fully integrated with HANA data lake IQ
- Full SQL syntax over IQ tables and file tables
- Join IQ tables with one or more file tables
- Elastic scaling, separate compute and storage
- Supports certificate-based access, authorization management, and user-role definition
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SAP HANA Data Lake in a nutshell
- Provides a modern data architecture to store any data from any source
- Fully integrated and administered with the HANA cloud instance, provisioned together with the
- HANA Cloud database or as a standalone Data Lake IQ service
- Provides large, scalable, and cost-efficient storage capacity ranging from Tera Bytes to Peta Bytes
- Supports full SQL-access
- Serves not only as a data lake but also as a data tiering layer for cold data in the HANA cloud
- Instance with instant access to all stored data
- Constantly updated for full compatibility with existing on-premise SAP IQ databases, allowing customers to move their data to the cloud and continue to gain value from their existing and historical data
VIZIO and SAP HANA Data Lake
Benefits
- VIZIO is your one-stop partner for all SAP products and is thus in a good position to take you through the different stages using different solutions seamlessly.
- VIZIO with its experience across various clients and industries is your ideal choice for migrating to SAP HANA Data Lake utilizing your existing resources and building new ones.
- VIZIO analyses your existing scenario and ensures that the migration and implementation processes are seamless.
- SAP products are constantly evolving and you require VIZIO’s wide and in-depth expertise to stay on top.
- We bring a trove of knowledge and expertise with our experience in implementing solutions across industries.
- We work as one with your team to understand existing database natures and structures so that the implementation process runs on oiled wheels.
- Our professional core and support teams are proficient in all SAP developments taking place and high level of technical knowledge in critical areas
- SAP products are constantly evolving and you require VIZIO’s wide and in-depth expertise to stay on top.