High Performance Analytics (HPA) in NetWeaver 2004s

Thomas ZurekSAP NetWeaver BI

SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 2

HPA Enginebased on

Adaptive Computing

What is HPA ?

SAP BI 7.0

DataAcquisition

InfoCubes

AnalyticalEngine

BusinessExplorer

Any Tool

AnySource

SAP NetWeaver 2004s

SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 3

What is HPA ? cont'd

blade-server based appliance

search engine technology originally developed for unstructured data now applied to structured data (cube data)

data resides in indexes compressed vertically / column-wise decomposed no precomputed results (like materialized views, MOLAP aggregates, …)

query processing parallel horizontal partitioning main memory processing

SAP AG 2005, HPA @ HPTS 2005 / 4

Cube 1,002,958,286 fact rows

on the file system: CSV files: 950 GB

on the RDBMS: data: 64 GB indexes: 56 GB

on the HPA blade servers: indexes: 9 GB upload: ≈ 7 hours

Demo Statistics

HPA server 7 * 2 CPU blades

each CPU 3.2 GHz

2 GB memory per CPU

1 index server per CPU

470 MB memory consumed per server/CPU

120 GB