In April 2020, SAP announced the launch of HANA Data Lake as a part of its cost-effective cloud services. It offers an affordable storage repository including SAP HANA native storage extension and a built-in relational SAP data lake.

The SAP data lake is a relational data lake which in effect means that the SAP IQ database is deployed in the cloud and provides processing capabilities at par with Azure or Amazon Web Service. It also offers 10x excellent compression of existing data, greatly saving storage costs.

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The data lake stores both structured and unstructured data and the SAP data lake can be enabled either in the current HANA Cloud instance or in a new HANA Cloud instance. In both systems, more storage space can be added at any time. Other typical cloud-based data lake features like security, encryption of data, audit logging, and tracking of data access are available too.

The Architecture of the SAP Data Lake
The SAP data lake architecture is 3-tiered and is in the shape of a pyramid.

At the top of the pyramid is the data that is most critical for your business and accessed frequently and quickly. It is also the most valuable for you and is known as hot data stored in memory. Hence, this data is operationally most expensive.

In the middle of the pyramid is data that in the past would be typically treated as cold storage but not now in the SAP data lake. This relational database structure optimizes simplification and acceleration of data analysis and can rapidly access massive volumes of data too.

At the bottom of the pyramid is the raw data that is less used and cannot be accessed as quickly as the top tier. The trade-off against the speed of operations is that large amounts of data can be accessed for a low price.

In a nutshell, this cloud-based SAP data lake helps to manage data through a reasonable life cycle. Critical and urgent data is available in real or near-real-time as is older data. This tiering in the form of a pyramid helps to keep costs down and you can choose how to store your data based on how quickly and frequently you need to access it.

Features of SAP Data Lake

Several high-performing features of SAP HANA data lake make it a preferred option for organizations around the world.
•Based on SAP IQ technology

•Highly elastic and works independently of HANA DB. It can scale up to petabytes of data on demand, enabling businesses to avoid investing in hardware and software for any additional need for resources.

•Provides seamless access to cloud storage like Amazon Web Service S3 and Google Cloud Platform Cloud Storage.

•Excellent high-performing ability to analyze data

•Provisioned to automatically complement and be administered with HANA Cloud

•Enabled for high-speed ingestion.

These cutting-edge features of SAP data lake result in a host of benefits for businesses.

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