The document provides an overview of new and improved capabilities in SAP HANA SPS 07 for fulltext search. Key updates include enhanced performance and functionality for fulltext indexing, a new BINTEXT datatype for indexing binary files, and improvements to the SAP HANA Info Access toolkit for building search applications. The architecture supporting fulltext search in SAP HANA SPS 07 is also outlined.

1. What´s New? SAP HANA SPS 07
Fulltext Search
(Delta from SPS 06 to SPS 07)
SAP HANA Product Management
November, 2013

2. Scope
The scope of the extended development topic “SAP HANA Fulltext Search” covers
Fulltext indexing
Search models
Fulltext search via SQL
SAP HANA Info Access (InA)
– SAP HANA Info Access (InA) toolkit for HTML5
– Simple Info Access (SInA) API for JavaScript
Related topics
Fuzzy Search
– Search Rule Sets
Text Analysis
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3. Agenda
What’s new? SAP HANA SPS 07
Improved capabilities
New capabilities
SAP HANA SPS 07 Fulltext Search Architecture
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4. Fulltext Search

5. What’s new? SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fulltext Search
Improved Capabilities
Enhancements to the datatype TEXT and SHORTTEXT
datatype TEXT/SHORTTEXT now provides the same search functionality as an “explicit” fulltext
index, yet consumes substantially less memory compared to a NVARCHAR column + FULLTEXT
INDEX for example
 asynchronous processing
 optional Text Analysis
Fulltext indexing performance, up to 60% faster
Additional options for FULLTEXT INDEX, e.g. specify list of token separators, change language
detection settings
Fulltext search performance
 especially for fuzzy search and phrase search with patterns, e.g. “poly* extrusion”
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6. What’s new? SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fulltext Search
New Capabilities
Datatype BINTEXT
datatype BINTEXT provides the same search functionality as an “explicit” fulltext index, yet
consumes substantially less memory compared to a BLOB column + FULLTEXT INDEX
 file filtering, converting binary file formats like .pdf to plain text
 optional Text Analysis
NEAR operator for fulltext search
New operator to find documents where search terms appear within a specified window of n words
Example SELECT * FROM myDocuments WHERE CONTAINS (documentText, NEAR ((polymer,
extrusion), 5);
Enhancements of the SAP HANA Info Access (InA) toolkit for HTML5
Leverage SNIPPETS/HIGHLIGHTED in InA toolkit UI
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7. SAP HANA SPS 07 – Fulltext Search Architecture
HANA Search UI
HANA App
Search UI configured
with the Info Access
(InA) toolkit for HTML5
running natively on
SAP HANA
Custom application
leveraging SAP
HANA search
capabilities
HANA App
built with
SAP UI5
Apps on HANA
Info Access
(InA) Service
SAP HANA Info Access
(InA) toolkit,
SInA API for JavaScript
SQL, MDX
Application running
natively on / against
SAP HANA
Applications on any
platform using SQL
via ODBC/JDBC
Fulltext Search via SQL
server-side
JS, OData
Extended Application Services
Modeler,
Dev.
Workbench
Search
Engine
Model
Engines
Linguistic
Processing
Tables
SAP HANA Studio
Metadata
Search Models,
Search Rule Sets
Analytic
Engine
Store
Entity, Fact
Extraction
Fulltext Indexing, Text
Analysis
Preprocessor
SAP HANA
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8. SAP HANA Simple Info Access (SInA) API for JavaScript
Browser
HANA App
Custom application leveraging SAP HANA search capabilities
HTML5 Application
JavaScript API
JavaScript API
SInA API for
JavaScript
SAP UI5
http
server-side
Javascript, OData
InA service
Internal API
Extended
Application
Services
SQL
Models
Tables
Database
SAP HANA
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9. Disclaimer
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10. Thank you
Contact information
Markus Fath
SAP HANA Product Management
AskSAPHANA@sap.com
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