This section contains hints for those who use SAP HANA, a very powerful and fast RDBMS. If you have choosen a different persistence technology on purpose you can simply ignore this guide. Besides general hints about the driver there are tips for more tight integration with other SAP features or products.
The hana JDBC driver is available in Maven Central what makes your life very easy. All you need is the following maven dependency:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.sap.cloud.db.jdbc</groupId>
<artifactId>ngdbc</artifactId>
<version>${hana.driver.version}</version>
</dependency>The variable hana.driver.version may be 2.3.55, but check yourself at http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/sap/cloud/db/jdbc/ngdbc/ for the proper or most recent version.
For your local development environment you will love the free SAP HANA, Express Edition.
You can run HANA in several ways:
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On-premise
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Via a Docker image (Linux only)
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Via a pre-configured virtual machine (Windows, Linux, OS X)
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Installed natively on your local machine (Linux only)
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In the cloud
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Via a pre-configured machine on the Google Cloud Platform
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Via a pre-configured machine in the Microsoft Azure Cloud
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Via a pre-configured machine on Amazon Web Services
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To get started with SAP HANA, Express Edition you can check out the tutorials at the SAP Developer Center.