in-memory database. ▪ SAP HANA XS advanced (XSA) is a completely re-engineered application server for native development of applications in SAP HANA. ▪ XS Advanced is essentially based upon Cloud Foundry ▪ Supports multiple runtime (Nodejs, Java,Javascript,python and other) ▪ Application can be deployed in Cloud Platform or on-premise. ▪ One application can use one or more of these runtimes using microservice architecture ▪ To manage the development, configuration and deployment of a business application built on XS Advanced Model that contain multiple programming artefacts such as Java code, OData definitions and DB content, SAP has introduces the concept of multi-target application (MTA). 4