SAP BI Accelerator

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In computing, the SAP BI Accelerator is a computer appliance - preinstalled software on predefined hardware - which is used to speed up OLAP queries. This solution eliminates the need for aggregations

SAP BI accelerator includes indexes that are vertically inverted reproductions of all the data included in InfoCubes (i.e., fact and dimension tables as well as master data). Note that there is no relational or other database management systems in BI accelerator. There is only a file system, and indexes are essentially held as flat files. The second primary component of SAP BI accelerator is the engine that processes the queries in memory. The software is running on an expandable rack of blade servers. The operating system used for BI Accelerator is 64-bit Linux, so in addition to having no database license cost, there is also no OS license cost.[citation needed].

[edit] Hardware partners

The software is optimized for specific hardware and operating system combinations.

The list of partners which deliver the appliance is:

  • IBM
  • HP
  • Fujitsu Siemens
  • Sun
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