2006- HANA was being object of research by SAP cofounder Hasso Plattner (he was a computer science professor at Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany). Research goal was to develop a database which can operate with a near zero response time for transactional and analytical data processing. He wanted to create a system that can handle business operation in real time.
2010- SAP HANA 1.0 was announced and has its first 10 go live customers. A pre-release version was shipped to selected customers in November of that year.
2012- SAP HANA started its first cloud computing product with the SAP HANA Cloud PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service). During the year, SAP HANA becomes the fastest growing sales in SAP history with 345 customers.
2013- SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud was announced as a managed private cloud offering for SAP HANA. It grows to 3000 customers and 520K plus end-users.
2014- SAP get the Guinness World’s record for largest data warehouse with 12.1 petabytes (PB). This storage number can store 6x more of entire printed content for all academic research libraries.
2015- SAP released SAP HANA 2.0 and SAP S/4HANA ERP system which introducing a whole new set of users to the database and it’s been recognized as a leader from Forrester research (The Forrester Wave: In-Memory Database Platforms).
2016- SAP HANA 2.0 available to public and launched SAP BW/4HANA data warehouse solution.
2017- SAP HANA recognized as the #1 leader (Forrester Wave: Translytical Data Platforms). It provides an unified and integrated data platform that simultaneously supports many types of workloads including transactional, operational, and analytical in real time.
2018- SAP becomes the first major database that optimized for Intel® Optane™ persistent memory.
2019- SAP HANA Cloud announced as SAP’s next-generation data platform-as-a-service which can runs on all SAP’s hyperscaler partners’ platforms.
2020- SAP HANA entered 10 year since initial launced and SAP HANA Cloud carried through as the next generation of innovation of SAP HANA.
From <https://www.sap.com/products/hana/what-is-sap-hana.html>