How are you defining "very large"? I've used HANA and even SAP doesn't make claim of real scalability -- the practical limitations are in their own documentation. And in real scalability testing, it struggles long before you reach those limits. For sensor data, I wouldn't use it for more than a few terabytes, and even then it has a few sharp edges when it comes to performance if you are not careful. No one is going to be putting petabytes into it, which isn't that much operational data these days.
And to my point you quoted, SAP HANA is extremely expensive to operate compared to alternatives. The licensing costs alone will kill you, never mind the hardware requirements.
And to my point you quoted, SAP HANA is extremely expensive to operate compared to alternatives. The licensing costs alone will kill you, never mind the hardware requirements.