In-Memory Technology Speeds Up Data Analytics

Processing, Indexing Touch With In-memory Technology

In-memory databases have the potential to produce dramatic results when organizations need to crunch a lot of data in short order. However, the field is not without a few wrinkles. Misconceptions regarding the nature of in-memory technology are among the issues.

Industry executives say an in-memory deployment calls for more than dumping data in memory. They say the data management software must be designed to work with memory.

"It's not just about putting all the data into memory," said Chris Hallenbeck, vice president of data warehouse solutions and the HANA platform at SAP. "It's about rewriting the entire database from the ground up to use memory as its primary method of storage, as opposed to disk." (The SAP HANA real-time platform includes an in-memory database.)

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