Lesson: Understanding Core Modeling with SAP HANA

Figure 47: Advanced Data Processing Capabilities

SAP HANA has built-in, advanced data processing capabilities. These include textual, spatial,
and predictive functions. Calculation views can easily call these native SAP HANA functions,
so applications can leave all the complex processing to SAP HANA.

Core Modeling Versus Advanced Modeling

The term, core modeling (sometimes called view modeling), refers to the development of
models that handle common analytical functions. These functions include filtering,
aggregation, calculations, and so on.
When we develop models to handle advanced analytical scenarios, such as predictive, spatial,
textual, and graph, we refer to this type of modeling as advanced modeling. For now, we will
focus on core modeling.
Core modeling in SAP HANA begins with the creation of a calculation view.

Note:
In earlier releases of SAP HANA, calculations views were part of a family called
Information Views. There were originally three members of that family; Attribute
View, Analytic View, and Calculation View.
Each of these view types had its own unique features, and typically, all three view
types were required. However, since the calculation view has inherited all the
features of the two other views, we no longer develop attribute or analytic views. In
fact these types of views can be migrated to calculation views using the supplied
tools. The calculation view can now do it all, which means we no longer have to be
concerned about which view type to use.

Calculation View Creation

When you create a calculation view, you choose various combinations of settings. These
settings define four basic types of calculation view.

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