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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)

Paper ID
4595
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2012
Pagerank
0.00016405824
Overall Rank
572 | 96.03%
DOI
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