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SAP HANA official python driver is on PyPi
The main point of this blog post is simple: you can now (June 25 2019) install the official SAP HANA python driver using pip.
> pip install hdbcli
Collecting hdbcli
Downloading https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/41/63/6471c62de291772971b2fdb2b9447e3b98937c658273bd48ec85489f1f4c/hdbcli-2.4.142-cp37-cp37m-win_amd64.whl (3.3MB)
100% |████████████████████████████████| 3.3MB 99kB/s
Installing collected packages: hdbcli
Successfully installed hdbcli-2.4.142
A few more details.
- The driver is distributed under the terms of the SAP Developer License.
- Some python users will know there is an existing open source pure-python driver pyhdb. The official driver uses a native (C++) library for the network protocol, which is shared with other HANA drivers and so supports the full HANA protocol specification, including such features as routing in multi-node HANA instances, client-side encryption, support for Active-Active, and more.
- Documentation on how to use the driver is on the SAP Help site.
- This first release of the driver is version 2.4.142, meaning it corresponds to the SAP HANA 2.0 SPS04 release (the 142 being a build number). The driver supports connections to SAP HANA databases from SAP HANA 1.0 SPS09 and later.
The usual way of using the driver is as follows:
from hdbcli import dbapi
conn = dbapi.connect(
address="<hostname>",
port=3<NN>13,
databaseName='<db>',
user="<username>",
password="<password>"
)
For alternatives, see this page.
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