John Furrier27
Can someone explain to me what Vora is?
Raghunath Nambiar
SAP HANA Vora is an in-memory query engine with Apache Spark
Sandeep Agrawal
HANA Vora is query engine that essentially combines the performance of HANA with the scale of Hadoop
John Furrier
@raghu_nambiar what is the role Spark plays with Vora?
Farid Jiandani
Vora is SAP's expansion of the HANA Data Platform for Big Data leveraging in-memory database technology
Hari Guleria
HANA is SAP's Big Data engine. VORA is the middleware that will make the connection to Hadoop seamless to SAP HANA
Jim McHugh
@RickSpeyer and @brianferrar let the explanation begin
Hari Guleria
VORA is how you enable Big-Data into integration into SAP HANA from velocity feeds of streaming data
Jim McHugh
Hadoop without Spark is like...
Richard Probst
HANA Vora leverages Spark, and adds HANA-like semantics. Result: you can have a single unified data model across HANA and Hadoop.
Jeff Frick
@JimMcHugh > visions of early morning Anita Bryant just jumped into my head
Raghunath Nambiar
Vora bridges the gap between "HANA=traditional" and "Hadoop=new and emerging" -- imagine the possibilities of the combination
Raghunath Nambiar
We predicted: http://blogs.cisco.c...
Richard Probst
Hadoop without Spark is like a traditional disk-based database compared to an in-memory database -- there's no comparison!
John Furrier
@JimMcHugh that should be a question on its own - reposting