Unit 3

Lesson 1
Understanding Core Modeling with SAP HANA

LESSON OVERVIEW
In this lesson, we will cover modeling with SAP HANA.

LESSON OBJECTIVES
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
● Understand SAP HANA core modeling

Modeling in SAP HANA

This lesson explains why modeling in SAP HANA is an important activity that ensures you are
using the SAP HANA platform to its full potential.

Figure 44: Modeling in the Application

In a traditional application, the role of the database is to provide raw data. There is usually
very little, or even no data processing in the database.
The raw data is sent from the database directly to the application. The application then begins
to process the data by combining it, aggregating it, and performing calculations in order to
generate something meaningful.
We can find ourselves moving a lot of raw data between the database and the application.
When we move raw data to the application layer, we make the application code very complex.

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