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Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by Jdam on Friday October 06, 2017 @12:35PM (#15418120)
> You can scale HANA vertically and horizontally

Nah, with scaling, I‘m more referring to approaches of eg Cassandra instead of „add another read replica“.

Re:Compute Engine machine types with up to 96 vCPUs and 624G... by mrich on Monday October 16, 2017 @12:08AM (#15480762)
I wasn't talking about replicas either. HANA can distribute data over many clusters.

https://blogs.saphana.com/2014/12/10/sap-hana-scale-scale-ha...

HANA's roots lie in BWA (SAP BW accelerator), whose main game was distributing large amounts of data across commodity clusters.