All you want to know on SAP HANA Cloud

[VenkatG]

Last Update: March 15, 2024

The purpose of this blog is a one stop shop list to all the important information resources of SAP HANA Cloud. It is to help the development and data management practitioners to quickly get up to speed on what it is, what’s the latest, and share best practices from other practitioners. Please bookmark this blog as I plan to update it when new information is available.

Since its inception in March 2020, SAP HANA Cloud is helping customers as an integrated platform supporting all types of data and workloads. Key use cases are:

• As a gateway to all the enterprise data. Connect any data anywhere and execute multiple workloads on a single copy of data.

• Real-time HTAP applications (native HANA). Combining analytical and transactional workloads

• SAP application extensions and side car scenarios, allowing to create hybrid scenarios

• Storage and processing of multiple different kinds of data (spatial, graph, documents, etc.)

• Built-in ML with Predictive Analytics Libraries (PAL) and Automated Predictive Libraries (APL)

• Peta byte scale analytics on structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data

• Ability to migrate on premise SAP IQ customers to the SAP HANA Cloud Data Lake with the option to upsell the HANA service.

 

Following are the important information sources:

Introduction:

• SAP HANA Cloud on sap.com

• Guided experience with SAP HANA Cloud

• SAP HANA Cloud – Road Map

• SAP HANA Cloud - FAQ (quick answers)

• SAP HANA Cloud Availability & Pricing

• SAP HANA Cloud Capacity Unit Estimator

• Customer Success Stories

• Early Adopter Care Program

• What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud – December 2023

Getting Started

• SAP HANA Cloud - Free Trials

• SAP HANA Cloud - Guided Experience

• SAP HANA Cloud Mission 01: Getting Started with Trial

• SAP HANA Cloud – Onboarding Guide (Fundamentals | HANA Database | Data Lake)

• SAP HANA Cloud – Learning Journeys

• SAP HANA Cloud – Learning Tutorials

 

SAP HANA Cloud Community

• SAP Developers

• SAP HANA on-premises and cloud databases

 

SAP Help (Documentation)

• SAP HANA Cloud (SAP Help)

• What’s New in SAP HANA Cloud

• SAP HANA Cloud Getting Started Guide

• Feature Scope Description of SAP HANA Cloud

• SAP HANA Cloud feature compatibility vs. other SAP HANA options

 

Migration to SAP HANA Cloud

• Migration to SAP HANA Cloud

• Key Topics in Migration to SAP HANA Cloud

• SAP HANA Cloud Migration: Setup your on-premise HANA system for the Self-Service Migration tool

• Migrate your SAP HANA Services for BTP (on Cloud Foundry) to SAP HANA Cloud using Self-Service Migra...

• Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 1

• Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 2

• Migrate Calculation Views from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud – Part 3

• SAP HANA Cloud: SAP HANA Core Data Services (CDS) Migration

• SAP HANA Cloud Migration: Common Code Remediations after Conversion of XS Classic Artifacts

• Migrating Applications from XSJS to Async-XSJS

• Migrating CDS projects from HANA Service or HANA 2 to HANA Cloud

• Transferring data from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud using SDI

• Helpful Techniques For Adapting Projects to Operate in a Different Environment (e.g., Move from on P...

• Replication of calculation views from on-premise HANA Platform to HANA Cloud

• Comparing HANA Schemas

• Customer Journey: NHL shares a success story of migration to SAP HANA Cloud

 

Key Articles & Blogs

• Community Blogs (search for SAP HANA Cloud)

• Latest Video and Podcasts (search for SAP HANA Cloud)

• Start working with SAP HANA Cloud

• SAP HANA Cloud - Workshop - Set up environment, define data strucures, federated scenario, calculati...

• Working with Calculation Views in SAP HANA Cloud | openSAP

• Can data modeling be enhanced by incorporating business knowledge?

• Data Centers
  
  
  • Memory and Storage Sizes Supported by SAP HANA Database
  
  
  • Availability of Data Lake Services per Data Center
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud data centers
  
  
  

• Sizing & Pricing
  
  
  • Estimating the costs of SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud Capacity Units: A Simple, Flexible, Consumption-Based Model for Cloud Database Servic...
  
  
  • How to estimate the cost of a SAP HANA Cloud instance with the help of the SAP HANA Cloud Capacity U...
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud: One Product, Three Consumption Methods
  
  
  

• Provisioning & Administration
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud Database Upgrades and Patches (Part 1 & Part 2)
  
  
  • Backup and Recovery for the SAP HANA (BTP)
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud goes “multi-environment”: Part 1- feature overview
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud goes “multi-environment”: Part 2- getting started
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud – Unlocking Performance Classes
  
  
  • Automating SAP HANA Cloud Tasks
  
  
  • Provisioning SAP HANA Cloud databases from Kyma and Kubernetes (1:Concepts, 2:Kyma, 3:Kubernetes)
  
  
  

• Data Management
  
  
  • Data management concepts and techniques in SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • SAP HANA Native Storage Extension (NSE) – Expert Guided Implementation
  
  
  • SAP HANA Native Storage Extension (NSE) - white paper
  
  
  • Extending SAP HANA on-premise to SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Import data from files to SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • High availability and Disaster Recovery in SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  

• Connectivity
  
  
  • Use Clients to Query an SAP HANA Database
  
  
  • Spotlight: Making the Connection to SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Live Data Connection from SAC to SAP HANA Cloud with Single-Sign-On
  
  
  • Access SAP HANA Cloud via Excel
  
  
  • Connect BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 to HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Cloud Connector, explained in simple terms
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud federation to on-premise Microsoft SQL Server Instance
  
  
  • How to connect On Premise SAP to BTP using SAP Cloud Connector
  
  
  • Connect SAP Web Intelligence to HANA Cloud with just two steps
  
  
  

• Building Application on SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • XSA Blog Series – Basic Principles of SAP HANA XSA
  
  
  • XSA Blog Series – HDI Container, Persistence and CAP
  
  
  • XSA Blog Series – XSA Data Loading
  
  
  • XSA Blog Series – Virtual modeling
  
  
  • XSA Blog Series – NodeJS
  
  
  • HANA Cloud deployment with several databases
  
  
  • Use CAP to expose HANA Cloud tables as OData services
  
  
  • Create Calculation views and OData services in a single project with HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Calculation View Features of 2023 QRC4
  
  
  • New Calculation View Modeling Features in SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Analyzing HEX query performance
  
  
  • Preparing an Analytical Data Model for HANA Cloud A ShowCase
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud models as a Service with SAP BTP, Kyma Runtime in 3 actions
  
  
  • Set up SAP Business Application Studio for Development
  
  
  • Develop a multi-target application using SAP Business Application Studio
  
  
  • Combine CAP with SAP HANA Cloud to Create Full-Stack Applications
  
  
  • Build an SAP CAP Application to Access SAP HANA Cloud, data lake Relational Engine
  
  
  • SAP Tech Bytes: SAP HANA / CAP Access Tables from a Different Schema
  
  
  • SAP HANA Database Explorer VSCode Extension Getting Started Tips
  
  
  • How to create an API to run a HANA Cloud Stored Procedure in Cloud Foundry
  
  
  • HDI: returning multiple deployment errors
  
  
  • General principles for SAP HANA Cloud native application development
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud – Catalog & HDI Role Creation (A step-by-step guide)
  
  
  • Working with Cross HDI Container Access Scenarios in SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Cross HDI Container Access using User-provided service for Containers within same SAP HANA Cloud ins...
  
  
  • Best Practise collection working with Business Application Studio(BAS) and HANA Deployment Infrastru...
  
  
  • Can I see the HANA deployment history ?
  
  
  • HANA project : Generate project documentation (init)
  
  
  • Complete list of tutorials with SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Gain a Digital Badge on SAP HANA Cloud With SAP Analytics Cloud Use Case
  
  
  

• Data Virtualization and Data Replication
  
  
  • Data Replication and Data Virtualization
  
  
  • Understand the Basics About Data Replication and Data Virtualization
  
  
  • Data Mesh with SAP Business Technology Platform Part 2 – SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud: switch between data federation, replication and snapshot
  
  
  • Implementing SDI with SAP HANA Cloud… concept and approach….
  
  
  • Log based replication to HANA cloud with SAP Cloud Connector
  
  
  • Transferring data from On-Premise SAP HANA to SAP HANA Cloud using SDI
  
  
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    Connect SAP S/4HANA as Data Source to SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • SAP S/4HANA data capabilities empowered by SAP HANA Cloud
  
  
  • Distributed data and cross database access in hybrid cloud landscapes with SAP HANA Cloud and SDA
  
  
  • SAP HANA On-Premise SDA remote source in SAP HANA Cloud using Cloud Connector
  
  
  • Accessing and integrating real-time data between two HANA Clouds using the latest development tools ...
  
  
  

• Security
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud – security concepts
  
  
  • Security and Backups in SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud – Analytic Privileges (A step-by-step guide)
  
  
  

• Multi-Model Capabilities
  
  
  • Harnessing Multi-Model Capabilities with Spotify-Processing Semi-Structured Data with SAP HANA Cloud/SAP Datasphere (Part-1 | Part-2 | Part-3 | Part-4 | Part-5 | Part-6)
  
  
  

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  • Machine Learning
    
    
    • Using Machine Learning Capabilities with SAP HANA Cloud
    
    
    • Hands-On Tutorial: Automated Predictive (APL) in SAP HANA Cloud
    
    
    • Python hana_ml: Basic Auto ML Classification(AutomaticClassification)
    
    
    • Auto-generating HANA ML CAP Artifacts from Python
    
    
    • Jupyter Notebook and SAP HANA: Persisting DataFrames in SAP HANA
    
    
    • SAP AI Core – Scheduling SAP HANA Machine Learning
    
    
    • SAP HANA Machine Learning Resources
    
    
    • Travel Sustainability Analysis
    
    
    
  
  
  • Vector Engine
    
    
    • SAP HANA Cloud’s Vector Engine Announcement
    
    
    • Vectorize your Data : SAP HANA Cloud’s Vector Engine for Unified Data Excellence
    • From Developer's Desk: SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine 
    
    
    
  
  
  • Spatial Engine
    
    
    • Introduction to SAP HANA Spatial Data Types
    
    
    • SAP HANA Spatial – The Spatial Engine of SAP HANA Cloud
    
    
    • Use SAP HANA Cloud and QGIS for Spatial Analytics
    
    
    • SAP HANA Spatial Resources - RELOADED
    
    
    • Linking Latitude and Longitude to Countries with SAP HANA Cloud
    
    
    • Discovery Mission: Visualize Hazards & Truck Routes using SAP HANA Cloud – The Engine for Spatial An...
    
    
    • Get started with SAP HANA Cloud and ArcGIS Pro for Free in 5 easy steps
    
    
    
  
  
  • Graph
    
    
    • SAP HANA Graph Resources
    
    
    • Get Started with SAP HANA Graph
    
    
    • Create graphs on SAP HANA Cloud
    
    
    • SAP Community Call: Learn about SAP HANA Cloud’s advanced multi-model capabilities and meet the winn...
    
    
    
  
  
  • JSON Document Store
    
    
    • SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – When Would I Use A Document Store?
    
    
    • SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA Database JSON Document Store Guide
    
    
    • SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – Enabling JSON Document Store
    
    
    • SAP HANA Cloud Document Store – HANA DocStore First Steps
    
    
    • Spotlight: SAP HANA Cloud JSON Document Store
    
    
    • The Small JSON Document Store Cookbook
    
    
    
  
  
  

• Data Lake
  
  
  • Get Started with a Standalone SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake
  
  
  • SAP HANA Cloud, data lake Overview (video)
  
  
  • Administration and Operation of SAP HANA Cloud, Data Lake (video)
  
  
  • Tools to access and use the data lake in SAP HANA Cloud (video)
  
  
  • Spotlight: SAP HANA Cloud, data lake stands alone
  
  
  • How to use Data Lake Files
  
  
  • Load Data from A Local File into HANA Cloud, Data Lake
  
  
  • Load Tables Asynchronously in SAP HANA Cloud, data lake Relational Engine
  
  
  • How to Capture Historical Database and DBSpace Sizes in SAP HANA Cloud, data lake and SAP IQ
  
  
  • Move data FAST from an SAP HANA Cloud database to a HANA Data Lake
  
  
  • HANA Data Lake Materialized Views
  
  
  • Copy Data Between Data Lake Files Instances Using Python
  
  
  

 

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