The SAS LASR Analytic Server engine
is used to add, remove, and access tables in a SAS LASR Analytic Server
instance.
Typically,
the tables that are loaded in memory are very large on a SAS LASR Analytic Server
instance. The engine makes it possible to access a table and use procedures
like the UNIVARIATE procedure. However, in this case, the entire table
is transferred from the server instance to the SAS session and then
the procedure is executed on the data. If the table is large, the
data volume can overwhelm the SAS session.
The
best performance for accessing the data through the engine is with
a SAS High-Performance Analytics procedure. These procedures are designed
to operate in a distributed computing environment and can read data
in parallel from a SAS LASR Analytic Server instance.