SAP high-performance analytic appliance also known in short as SAP HANA, is an in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system developed and marketed by SAP. Its primary function as the software running a database server is to store and retrieve data as requested by the applications. In addition, it performs advanced analytics like predictive analytics, spatial data processing, text analytics, text search, streaming analytics, graph data processing and includes ETL (extract, transform, load) capabilities as well as an application server.