Chapter 7. SAS® Software Engineers the Processing Environment for You
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- The SAS platform
- Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and
- SAS server versus SAS grid
- In-database processing
- In-memory processing
- Open platform and open source
- Running SAS processing outside the SAS platform
- SAS® Viya™, the newest part of the SAS platform
Architecture
While with small data such as the size of data that fits on a desktop or laptop, processing speed is impacted by several factors, such as the speed of the processor or processors, the amount of memory, and the size of the usable disk space. While it is important to optimize the resources at the desktop level to ensure the best response times and the amount of work that ...
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