Oracle In-Memory Licensing & Usage

[Former Member]

Hi.

According to SAP Note 1888485 - Database Parameter for 12.1.0.2

the enablement of In-Memory column storage for Oracle 12 requires additional license.

Has anyone any experience using this option and also any idea about the extra cost when purchased through SAP ?

Looking ahead, HANA looks like the preferred target platform, but since we have a substantial Oracle environment today, it would be interesting to investigate what we could gain short-term using Oracle In-Memory option.

Are SAP customers allowed to activate this option (in the lab) for testing purposes only ?

BR Gerhard.

[fidel_vales · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes, you can activate it for testing purposes (no support provided) there are already some other customers doing this.

It is supposed to be released at the end of the month and, probably, there will be some suggestions about its usage but I'm quite sure that the tables and amount of memory to be assigned and ... will be a case by case scenario, even on the same customer.
Be careful as it is an extra (extra) cost feature, not included with the SAP licence.

Currently, SAP "still" supports Oracle , no worries there, and mainstream maintenance for SAP Business Suite 7 Software will end in 2025 (unless future changes)

[stefan_koehler]

Hi Gerhard,

> Are SAP customers allowed to activate this option (in the lab) for testing purposes only ?

Oracle In-Memory is currently not supported by SAP (SAPnote #2133079), but it will be in round about 2 weeks (end of Q2/2015). If you activate/use an option it is tracked by Oracle (e.g. dbms_feature_usage_report.display_text) and you could/will be theoretically charged for it in a license audit.

However as this feature is transparent to the application it will work right now as well (disregarding possibly not fixed bugs in current SBP and SAP optimizer limitations/settings). I would perform a system copy / database restore and play with it in a sandbox environment (yes it already works ), if you want to try it out. Afterwards you just delete the sandbox system and everything is fine. You gonna need to try out several settings anyway (which objects / columns to load and in which way, etc.) and so a sandbox environment with productive / quality data would be perfect.

Regards

Stefan