Author: Norman May, SAP
January 30, 2014
If the data of a Hana application can no longer be processed by a single server node (scale-up), then the data must be distributed to multiple nodes (scale-out). Since Numa concerns access to local main memory, this article does not go into more detail about aspects of distributed systems.
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