HANA in memory database that can serve both OLTP and OLAP workloads with sub second response times. The cost of the server is dwarfed by the licence cost.
Any time you might think "I need a Hadoop cluster for this!" is now less likely to be correct.
From the page:
>> SAP HANA in Minutes
> The EC2 High Memory instances are certified by SAP for ⟨…⟩
[SAP HANA keeps everything in RAM.]
I don't think machine learning would be a good use case for such a machine, you probably want GPUs or TPUs for that.
Database with the entire data set in memory?
My redis is bigger than your redis?
This sentence seems especially peculiar when you take into account that the word "redis" means "radish" in Estonian.
Funny that Redis has en edit distance of 2 with certain word... and also rhymes with it.