SAP, together with partners BMMsoft, HP, Intel, NetApp and Red Hat, has set a new world record for the world’s largest data warehouse using the SAP HANA platform and SAP IQ software.
At 12.1PB, the data warehouse has been recognised by Guinness World Records, and is four time larger than the previous record.
A team of engineers from SAP and its partners built the data warehouse using SAP HANA and SAP IQ16, with BMMsoft Federated EDMT running on HP DL580 servers using Intel Xeon e7-4870 processors under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and NetApp FAS6290 and E5460 storage.
The development and testing was conducted by the team at the SAP/Intel Petascale lab in Santa Clara, California, and independently audited by InfoSizing.
According to SAP, this new world record demonstrates the ability of SAP HANA and SAP IQ to efficiently handle extreme-scale enterprise data warehouse and Big Data analytics. SAP and its partners had previously set a world record for loading and indexing Big Data at 34.3 Terabytes per hour.
“Setting a new world record with the combination of SAP HANA and SAP IQ was a ‘moonshot’ challenge I had laid out for our engineering team,” said Dr Vishal Sikka, member of the Executive Board of SAP AG, Products and Innovation. “Our goal was to set new limits in bringing Big Data together with fast, ad hoc and scalable analytics. SAP has shown the ability of our platform to achieve such an incredible result, demonstrating a cost-effective and high-performance approach towards solving extreme problems in Big Data and analytics.”
