SAP HANA Connections

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Feature Availability: This feature may not be available in all product editions. For more information on available features, see Compare Editions.

SAP HANA® (High-performance ANalytic Appliance) is a multi-model database that stores data in its memory instead of keeping it on a disk. For more information, see https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html.

Early Preview connection: This connection is in early preview. It is read-only and available only in SaaS product editions. For more information on early previews, see Early Preview Connection Types.

Limitations and Requirements

NOTE: During normal selection or import of an entire table, you may encounter an error indicating a problem with a specific column. Since some tables require filtering based on a particular column, data from them can only be ingested using custom SQL statements. In this case, the problematic column can be used as a filter in the WHERE clause of a custom SQL statement to ingest the table.

For more information, please consult the CData driver documentation for the specific table.
For more information on using custom SQL, see Create Dataset with SQL.

NOTE: For filtering date columns, this connection type supports a set of literal functions on dates. You can use these to reduce the volume of data extracted from the database using a custom SQL query. For more information, see the pg_dateliteralfunctions.htm page in the driver documentation for this connection type.

Supports basic authentication.

Create Connection

via Dataprep by Trifacta application

When you create the connection, please review the following properties and specify them accordingly:

Connection Property	Description
User	The SAP HANA user account used to authenticate.
Password	The password used to authenticate the user.
Database	The name of the SAP HANA database.
Advanced options: Enable SSH Tunneling	If enabled, the SSH tunneling option allows you to configure SSH tunneling authentication between the Dataprep by Trifacta application and your database. For more information, see Configure SSH Tunnel Connectivity.
Enable SSL	Display name of the connection.
Connect String Options	Optional field.
Default Column Data Type Inference	Leave this value as `Enabled`.

For more information, see the driver documentation https://cdn.cdata.com/help/SNG/jdbc/default.htm.

via API

Depending on your product edition, you can create connections of this type. Key information:

"vendor": "sap_hana",
"vendorName": "SAP HANA",
"type": "jdbc"

For more information, see

Dataprep by Trifacta: API Reference docs

Data Type Conversions