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SAP Cloud Platform (SCP) is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) product that provides development and runtime environments.
The SAP Cloud Platform supports three different environments.
- Cloud Foundry
- Neo
- ABAP (more on that here...)
The following picture briefly describes the differences between CF and NEO.
Cloud Foundry is an open source, industry standard Platforms as a Service (PaaS) technology for developing and deploying cloud applications in both private and public cloud environments. It is designed to run on a variety of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), such as Amazon Web Services, OpenStack, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure. It enables developers to use different programming languages, runtimes and data / backing services. SAP is a founding Platinum level member of the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which oversees the development of Cloud Foundry Software and ecosystem.
SAP Cloud Platform has adopted the open source Cloud Foundry technology being a certified Cloud Foundry platform, allowing customers and partners to leverage community innovations in a simple and integrated manner.
"SAP HANA" is an in-memory database and application development platform for processing high volumes of data in real time. Not to confuse with "SAP S/4 HANA" which is the successor SAP ERP system to the current "R/3" ERP system.
Classical databases are usually row-oriented whereas SAP HANA databases save data in an column-oriented fashion.
Row-Oriented vs Column-Oriented
Disk Based DB vs HANA (simplified)
For more technical info check out: SAP HANA Basics for Developers.