I do only use SAS for data processing (importing, exporting, textmining etc.). What advantage would I have with Viya compared with SAS 9. A typical scenario is a stock of 40,000 json files (590GB) downloaded from a server as input, resulting in a SAS dataset of 60GB (CHAR-compressed) with 130 million obs and 32 vars. The import on my i9-10980 takes about 3-4 days and subsequent datasteps take around another 2 full days. Moving such data across a network is not impossible but where would such data best be stored since every datastep results in a modified dataset?