With a live data connection in SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), the data is not imported or replicated into the SAC tenant. Instead, the data remains in its original location, the source system (e.g., SAP HANA, SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA). When a user interacts with a story or model based on a live connection, SAC sends queries directly to the source system in real-time to retrieve the necessary data for visualization. The SAC model itself only contains metadata, such as the structure and definitions, not the actual transactional data.

A. Public dataset: This is too generic. While a source system could be a public dataset, the technically precise location where the data is stored is the "source system" itself.

B. SAP Analytics Cloud model: This is incorrect. Data is stored in the SAC model only when using an import (acquired) data connection, where data is copied into SAC's underlying database.

D. Embedded data set: This term describes data that has been imported and is contained within the SAC asset (story or model), which is characteristic of an import connection, not a live one.

1. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud - Data Connectivity - Live: "With live data connections

your data stays in your on-premise or cloud-based data source

and is not replicated to SAP Analytics Cloud. This means that your data is always up-to-date

and you can also benefit from the security and authorizations defined in the underlying data source."

2. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud - Models: "For models from live data connections

data is 'live'

meaning that it's stored in the source system and is queried on the fly... For models from import data connections

data is imported (copied) into SAP Analytics Cloud."

3. SAP Help Portal

SAP Analytics Cloud - Types of Models: "A model based on a live data connection does not store any data in SAP Analytics Cloud. It only stores the metadata of the source model. This means that when you are working with a chart in a story

you are viewing the data live from the source system."