Architecture sap hana vs oracle exadata competitive analysis part -2

READ part 1:
https://sandyclassic.wordpress.com/2011/11/04/architecture-and-sap-hana-vs-oracle-exadata-competitive-analysis/
This debate of SAP Vs Oracle or last 2 yrs buzz SAP HANA vs Oracle Exalytics
Every year in Enterprise Software space Competition of SAP Vs Oracle Hots up with new announcements and New technology comparisons of SAP new Tech Vs Oracle New Tech.
The Enterprise Software stack built up by No.1 and No.2  world’s top most valued companies in Enterprise Technology Space.
So SAP Vs Oracle comparison will never go out of picture only every year it will up the ante. 
In Memory Technology: SAP Vs Oracle (New tech now 2 yrs old).

Now a day In-Memory Technology is the Hottest area especially in Business Intelligence (BI). But its not limited to BI it goes into ERP, Application development of any Kind.
The processing infrastructure in form of in Memory Systems is much faster than any other form. As Cost of RAM is coming down and capacity of server is expanding So most data to be processed can be pulled inside memory at once instead of using Locality of reference to pull and process from secondary memory.
Also Server can hold lot more data to processed in memory at once.
SAP HANA Vs Oracle Exadata
So SAP Came with SAP HANA and Oracle has its own in memory systems. At same time Oracle released high performance machine Exadata which brook many performance records. So There was running comparisons of SAP Vs Oracle in Enterprise Technology space.
innovation at SAP : ABAP, BSP and BAPI 
SAP customized by using  Advanced Business Application Programming (ABAP) Language.
Using which reports are customized, forms are modified, business processes are written to reflect business Logic. ILE, BAPI, IDOC can be used to interface with external software or integration or developing Adaptor. Custom Exits and User Exits are written to customize forms and reports.
For SAP datawarehouse technology SAP BIW or SAP BI datawarehouse is created using
Extraction Legacy System Migration Workbench (LSMW) or Cost and profitability Analysis (COPA) Extrations then transformation can be applied using ABAP user exits.
Problem with ABAP is compared to mordern langauges it has not evolved much over time.
Most of ABAP constructs are similar to COBOL constructs. There is Object oriented ABAP also like JSP or ASP  it came up with BSP (Business Server Pages) to Expose ABAP code directly to Web like JSP does for Java or ASP does for Microsoft Technology.

SAP Netweaver  Vs SAP ABAP BSP
SAP began adopting Java in 2003 and came up with Netweaver product which was J2EE server for ABAP code. Now you can code using either java or ABAP in netweaver. For Application requiring functionality to exposed to Web Java was natural choice.
But Oracle having acquired Java in year 2010 Since then there was continuous Effort on part of SAP to move away from its dependence of Java.  So BSP came into picture as first step.
Benefits of In-memory in SAP HANA
next was paradigm shift using Columar database instead of Row oriented databases which consumed less storage (on account of reduction in repetitions of similar column values as well compression of data).
Also it integrates:
BI and datawarehousing system or OLAP with
Operational systems or OLTP Systems as one.
Even Analytic requiring lowest level of granularity can be queried on same server.
Effect of which was Whole data can be pulled and kept in In-memory system offering faster response time to multiple user connected at same time rather than
Regular database Query processing logic
parsing request , making parse tree,
comparing with already fetched query parse tree in cache
if not available
then
fetching data from secondary memory
when depending on the request into

Improvement in data processing in SAP HANA and column oriented database
Now since whole data can be kept in-memory So Every query can directly fetch data quicker.
Future Technology Like SAP HANA
Enhancement over this Technology are Probabilistic databases and Graph databases.
Graph databases are available commercially since long time.
Index free storage. Every element has direct pointer to adjacent element, hence no lookup needed.
Here is list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database
And
Probabilistic databases : Are active area of research as discussed above as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_database

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