SAP Analytic cloud - Data Persistence.

[dsanpor]

Dear experts.

I know the possibilities of connection from SAC to data sources. However, I cannot see if there is a database in the SAC itself. That is, does it offer permanent data persistence? or on the contrary it is temporary.

Could you provide me with an access point to information to have an understanding of how the data is stored in SAC? I am not interested in the connections (how the information is stored), I am interested in how long the information remains in SAC and how that data is managed.

Thanks and greetings DAvid Sánchez.

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David,

I'm not clear as to what sort of detail you are looking for regarding how data is stored in SAC.

You mentioned that you are already familiar with the difference SAC connection types:

https://help.sap.com/viewer/2d7115b0e0aa4f78bfd9c06fdc1fe4f6/release/en-US

So you are aware that SAC provides the option of either Live data connections or import data connections. Live data connections do not store data in the SAC tenant and data is queried live from the source system every time a story or chart is queried. Data import connections import a copy of data into SAC which can be manipulated without affecting the source data. For some connection types this data can then be exported back to the source system.

As SAC is built on top of SAP HANA the imported data resides in the HANA database of your tenant and remains for the life of your tenant unless you explicitly delete the data yourself.