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The “Internet of things” (IoT) is becoming an increasingly growing topic of conversation both in the workplace and outside of it. It’s a concept that not only has the potential to impact how we live but also how we work. But what exactly is the “Internet of things” and what impact is it going to have on you, if any? There are a lot of complexities around the “Internet of things” but I want to stick to the basics. Lots of technical and policy-related conversations are being had but many people are still just trying to grasp the foundation of what the heck these conversations are about.

A column-oriented DBMS (or columnar database) is a database management system (DBMS) that stores data tables as columns rather than as rows. Both columnar and row databases use traditional database languages like SQL to load data and perform queries. Both row and columnar databases can become the backbone in a system to serve data for common ETL and data visualization tools. However, by storing data in columns rather than rows, the database can more precisely access the data it needs to answer a query rather than scanning and discarding unwanted data in rows. Query performance is often increased as a result, particularly in very large data sets.

SAP SE   today unveils the SAP Cloud for Analytics solution, a planned software as a service (SaaS) offering that aims to bring all analytics capabilities into one solution for an unparalleled user experience (UX). Built natively on SAP HANA Cloud Platform, this high-performing, real-time solution plans to be embedded with existing SAP solutions and intends to connect to cloud and on-premise data to deliver planning, predictive and business intelligence (BI) capabilities in one analytics experience. The intent is for organizations to use this one solution to enable their employees to track performance, analyze trends, predict and collaborate to make informed decisions and improve business outcomes.

Last year SAP enhanced their tool called Visual Intelligence at and made it much more user friendly. In general, the graphs became more advanced, while the self-service data visualization development effort was simplified. They also renamed the tool Lumira. This blog is about a brief introduction to SAP Lumira. SAP Lumira is a self-service data visualisation tool, enables business users to access, transform, and visualize data of any size in a repeatable and self-service manner. The tool emphasizes a simple user-friendly interface and creates very captivating visualizations which allow users to swiftly analyse data without the need for scripting.

Enterprise software giant SAP released a new-and-improved version of its 4.5-year old database, HANA. SAP has bet the entire company's future on this product. It's SAP's attempt to clobber its arch enemy, Oracle (who pretty much owns the database market, even for SAP customers).

Apple has laid off dozens of employees working on its self-driving car efforts, Daisuke Wakabayashi and Brian Chen report for The New York Times. The company is apparently rethinking the strategy of its  so-called Project Titan  car initiative, with employees being told the layoff was part of a "reboot," according to the Times' sources.

Database Features of SAP HANA that contribute to making it unique in the industry In-Memory, Columnar,  Massively parallel Database Processing The SAP HANA platform permits online transaction processing and online analytical processing workloads using a single data copy on a single platform. It stores data in high-speed memory, organizes it in columns, and partitions and distributes it among multiple servers. This delivers faster queries that aggregate data more efficiently while avoiding costly full-table scans, materialized views, and analytic indexes. Full ACID compliance SAP HANA helps ensure compliance with all requirements for the ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability) standards. A two-phase commit protocol protects atomicity, while multiversion concurrency control and distributed transactions help guarantee consistency. A built-in transaction manager safeguards isolation, and the logger provides durability by writing commit-log entries to disk.

SAP HANA is an in-memory, Column-Oriented, Relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP AG. HANA Stands for High Performane Analytic Appliance .