Efficient Transaction Processing in SAP HANA Database – The End of a Column Store Myth
Summary: Unified in-memory architecture enabling OLTP/OLAP on a single data representation, SAP HANA challenges the column-store-only myth for transactions. It employs record life-cycle management to move entries between write- and read-optimized formats, optimizing both workloads. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Vishal Sikka
- 2. Franz Färber
- 3. Wolfgang Lehner
- 4. Sang Kyun Cha
- 5. Thomas Peh
- 6. Christof Bornhövd
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 54 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,786 | Freely Moving Between the OLTP and OLAP Worlds: Hermes – an High-Performance OLAP Accelerator for MySQL | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,217 | Efficient Approximation Framework for Attribute Recommendation | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,624 | Towards Multi-way Join Aware Optimizer in SAP HANA | 2020 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 11,918 | Purity: Building Fast, Highly-Available Enterprise Flash Storage from Commodity Components | 2015 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 | The End of an Architectural Era (It's Time for a Complete Rewrite) | 2007 | VLDB | 0.00052563276 |
| 305 | SIMD-Scan: Ultra Fast in-Memory Table Scan using on-Chip Vector Processing Units | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00028248614 |
| 1,053 | A Common Database Approach for OLTP and OLAP Using an In-Memory Column Database | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00014429683 |
| 3,895 | P*TIME: Highly Scalable OLTP DBMS for Managing Update-Intensive Stream Workload | 2004 | VLDB | 6.6581873e-05 |
| 5,964 | Bridging Two Worlds with RICE: Integrating R into the SAP In-Memory Computing Engine | 2011 | VLDB | 5.2520617e-05 |
| 6,128 | Data Mining with the SAP NetWeaver BI Accelerator | 2006 | VLDB | 5.1979556e-05 |
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