John, thanks for the detailed information. One question for sake of clarification on this comment I have:
On average size, my advice is to get at last 30-60 cores, you need this many to experience how amazing HANA is. On compression, it varies. Against CSV flat files, we usually see 5-10:1.
We are only licensed to use HANA XS for Lumira Server (LREA limited runtime whatever). Was your 30-60 core recommendation under the assumption we'd be using HANA for something in addition to Lumira Server, or do we truly need that type of power for just this limited application of HANA?
Thanks again for the great information. This will help for other (separate) HANA tracks that are moving at a different pace than this Lumira Server track which I see as simpler in scope.