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Storage Management Release 2305

Storage Management Release 2305

May 17, 2023

Storage Management is a middleware software. Various products use it for a seamless connection to secondary databases or storages.

This document describes individual storages, their parameters, minimal requirements, and setup procedures.

Supported Technologies

AWS



Azure

Google

Snowflake

Hadoop

Relational DB

BLOB

AWS



Azure

Google

Snowflake

Hadoop

Relational DB

BLOB

S3

Azure Blob

Google Cloud Storage

Snowflake DB

HDFS

DB2/DB6

MaxDB

Redshift

ADLS (Gen1 & Gen2)

BigQuery



Hive

MaxDB

MSSQL



Databricks





Impala

HANA

Oracle



AzureSQL







MSSQL

SAP ASE











Oracle













SybaseIQ













SAP ASE



Technical overview

Storage Management (SM) is a gateway between SAP and external storage.

In the case of standard databases supported by SAP, the secondary DB connection defined in SAP is used to access external storage.

For Big Data and Cloud-based storage, our company uses an intermediate SM module to communicate with the external storage.



Communication diagram

Communication with the target platform is established through the Java connector using either the standard SAP HTTP service via RestAPI calls or the Java connector via JDBC/SDK.

The data transfer process is following a standard pattern of a phased approach:

  1. Data is fetched into the memory of the SAP application server.

  2. Data is transferred into target storage using file-based storage as a landing zone.

  3. (Optional) Commit final data set into SQL-based storage using Java connector via JDBC/SDK connection.