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SAP HANA Cloud is a multi-cloud database as a service (DBaaS) that empowers customers to store data, tier data, and ensure that high-value data is accessible whenever needed. The services in SAP HANA Cloud can be used to develop all the powerful applications that an organization needs, or it can simply connect any applications already in use.

SAP HANA Cloud is the database management foundation of SAP Business Technology Platform. This platform encompasses database & data management, analytics, application development & integration, as well as intelligent technologies.

SAP HANA Cloud offers a cloud-native implementation of SAP HANA databases. SAP HANA Cloud is the successor of SAP HANA Service. SAP HANA Service was (simply speaking) a cloud deployment of an SAP HANA on-premise version.

We encourage all SAP HANA Service users to migrate to SAP HANA Cloud. The self-service migration tool included with SAP HANA Cloud makes it easy to migrate to SAP HANA Cloud. For SAP HANA users, it’s possible to extend your on-premise investments to the cloud.

SAP Data Warehouse Cloud runs on SAP HANA Cloud, but these are separate solutions. SAP Data Warehouse Cloud is focused on advanced modeling capabilities and collaboration with business users of all technical levels. SAP HANA Cloud, as a DBaaS, is focused on data management strategies.

SAP BW can access SAP HANA Cloud and the data lake as a federated source. You can also connect from SAP HANA Cloud to SAP BW, depending on your needs.

Some companies opt to connect their SAP BW to SAP HANA Cloud to extend their on-premise investment with cloud data storage.

SAP HANA Cloud offers databases as a service. SAP manages parts of this service, like the complete hardware setup and other cloud-native aspects. Customers get one super admin database user and can then create customized roles and permissions that fit their organization.

You will have access to the SAP HANA Cockpit, a tool for administering and monitoring your SAP HANA database, within SAP HANA Cloud. Here, you can monitor various performance metrics, like CPU, memory, response time, disk I/O, and network to confirm contention on infrastructure. 

Yes, there is a  command line for provisioning all SAP HANA Cloud services.

Please go to this page and register for the free trial. After providing your information, you’ll be sent a confirmation email to begin your trial. In addition to the trial, you’ll be provided with useful hands-on materials to quickly get started. You’ll be given the chance to renew your trial every 30 days up to a year.

In the SAP HANA Cloud trial, you can test the SAP HANA database and the data lake services. The configuration of your SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database trial instance is 30GB of memory, 2vCPUs, and 120GB of storage. You can only have one database and one data lake instance (4vCPUs, 256GB of storage) in your SAP HANA Cloud trial account.

The SAP HANA Cloud trial offers you to experience most of the features of these two services, but it does not include the Machine Learning capabilities, the JSON Document Store, nor the Data Lake Files component.

SAP HANA Cloud can be added to any existing trial account by following these steps. If you already use other SAP Business Technology services, those will not be affected by the SAP HANA Cloud trial.

Elasticity means that SAP HANA Cloud can adjust the allocated compute/storage resource consumption depending on the actual workload. Resource adjustment in SAP HANA Cloud can be achieved via a self-service.

The native storage extension is enabled by default in an SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database instance. Data in native storage extension is managed by the user. You still need to explicitly specify tables/partitions/columns to be page loadable to take advantage of native storage extension. In the future, there will be also the ability to provision incremental disk storage to increase native storage extension capacity. In a later update, we plan to automate data management in native storage extension. However, you will be always able to control the native storage extension.

There are lower prices and lower total cost of ownership compared to other offerings. That’s because SAP HANA Cloud introduces a cloud-native database architecture that directly benefits from the cost-efficiency of hyperscaler’s infrastructure.

Use the cost estimator tool to see approximately what you can expect to pay.

Each service within SAP HANA Cloud has its own minimal configuration. For the SAP HANA database, it’s 30GB memory and 120GB storage (with or without data). For the data lake, you have a minimum of 4 vCPUs and 1 TB storage on AWS or 4TB on Azure.

For SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, you have a minimum of 4 vCPUs, 16 GB memory, and 128 GiB storage. Finally, for the ASE Replication service, you have a minimum of 2 vCPUs, 8 GB memory, 16 GB data storage, and 4 GB system storage.

For data virtualization, SAP HANA Cloud supports many adapters from SAP HANA smart data access/SAP HANA smart data integration on-premises. Additionally, SAP HANA Cloud supports data virtualization from AWS Athena (S3) and Google BigQuery. For the Adaptive Server Enterprise service, you can use CIS Proxy Tables.

The SAP HANA Cloud adapters are different from the Open Connectors in SAP Business Technology Platform. However, SAP HANA Cloud provides an SAP HANA smart data integration (SDI) adapter that integrates with the Open Connectors framework in SAP Business Technology Platform.

SAP HANA Cloud uses two replication modes: Remote Table Replication (RTR) for HANA-HANA and SAP HANA smart data integration replication for HANA-AnyDB. RTR comes with its own logging and SAP HANA smart data integration relies on the adapter capabilities for the corresponding remote database (and if the remote DB supports a DB logging API).  

You gain secure access to on-premises data sources with SAP HANA smart data integration DP Agent. . You can connect SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database to on-premise databases using the Cloud Connector from the SAP Connectivity service.

SAP HANA Cloud can connect to S3 and ingest data. We federate with AWS Athena to access S3. SAP HANA Cloud can also ingest data directly from S3 via the built-in data lake.

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Yes, the Document Store is available in SAP HANA Cloud. and can be activated for the SAP HANA database. Activation can be triggered via Self-Service in the SAP HANA Cloud Central.

SAP HANA Cloud provides various performance analysis tools for the SAP HANA database and Adaptive Server Enterprise services with the SAP HANA Cockpit. There, you can analyze problematic workloads or queries in your application.

SAP HANA CDS is no longer supported in SAP HANA Cloud. The recommended development model for SAP HANA Cloud is the SAP Cloud Application Programming Model.

There are no changes for developers with SAP Business Technology Platform CF concerning the application runtime. For a list of changes concerning SAP HANA Cloud, please refer to SAP note 2868742.

These services are built to handle SAP ASE and SAP IQ workloads within SAP HANA Cloud. SAP ASE and SAP IQ, originally known under the Sybase name, have been relied upon by our clients for decades:

• SAP ASE is known as an Extreme Online TransactionProcessing database (XOLTP. Clients use it for quickly and reliably processing high volumes of mission-critical transactional data.
• SAP Replication Server was the first commercial replication product on the market. It’s a high-performance and low impact solution for data replication and disaster recovery.
• SAP IQ was the first commercially available columnar database on the market. It excels at storing and analyzing massive volumes of data at a low cost.

SAP ASE and SAP IQ are installed on-premise for thousands of customers. But as data volumes increase exponentially, many of our customers are looking for cloud solutions. With SAP HANA Cloud, SAP offers increased scalability and flexibility, with on-demand provisioning and consumption-based pricing.

SAP is committed to supporting all SAP database customers and will ensure customers continue to benefit from our full database portfolio, both on-premise and in the cloud.  You can keep track of this through the product availability matrix.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise replication, and data lake are included and no additional license is necessary.

SAP HANA Cloud uses the SAP Business Technology Platform cloud credit system for consumption-based pricing. This means that you buy credits and use those credits as you wish. You can find our pricing estimator here (simply select the services that you wish to use).

If customers so choose, they will be able to move their existing SAP ASE and SAP IQ databases to SAP HANA Cloud. On-premise databases will need to be updated to the current version of SAP ASE and SAP IQ prior to migration. Please visit our onboarding guide for more information.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise supports a minimum size of 128 GB and a maximum size of 65536 GB. You can choose from 4 to 60 vCPUs, and you can choose a ratio of memory to vCPU of 4 GB:1vCPU, 8 GB:1vCPU, or 16GB:1vCPU.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise replication supports a minimum storage size of 16 GB and a maximum storage size of 1024 GB. You can choose from 2 to 30 vCPUS, with 4 GB of RAM supported for each vCPU.

SAP HANA Cloud, data lake supports a minimum size of 1 TB on AWS, and a minimum of 4 TB on Microsoft Azure, with a maximum of 90 TB supported on each.

These sizes will continue to evolve as SAP continues to invest in these services.

SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA’s SQL engine can process data being stored in the data lake, but not in SAP HANA Cloud, adaptive server enterprise. Multi-model processing will only be available within SAP HANA Cloud and the SAP HANA core engine. You will be able to access the data lake through virtual tables, but the expectation is that performance will not be good if analyzing large amounts of data.

Multi-model analytics natively in SAP HANA Cloud, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and data lake are presently not available.

Yes, this is the case. 

Data is loaded into data lake row at a time via traditional SQL DML. Or, you can bulk load data from an object store (eg., Azure Storage, S3) using the LOAD TABLE statement.

SAP HANA and IQ have been working together for many years, and many optimizations have been made in the SAP HANA smart data access communications between the two. One example is that IQ and SAP HANA can exchange data in larger, more easily processed chunks (ITABS) than a standard SAP HANA smart data access connection to a third-party library, which would only exchange data row by row. These functionalities are also available in the SAP HANA Cloud data lake.

Data Hub/Data Intelligence can connect to SAP HANA Cloud as a data source and destination, so you have the full range of machine learning capabilities available. 

Yes. When the data lake is provisioned, the corresponding remote source is created in the HANA database automatically.

SAP HANA Service will continue to be supported, but SAP HANA Cloud is the next evolution when it comes to new capabilities.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database represents SAP’s state-of-the-art solution for cloud data management. However, we will continue supporting SAP HANA Service for current customers in accordance with existing contracts. Apart from that, SAP is fully committed to assisting SAP HANA Service customers during their transition to SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database with both the technical support and the license migration. Read this blog post from one of our product managers to learn more about the benefits of migrating.

Migrating to SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database from SAP HANA Service offers several benefits, such as improved scalability, access to the built-in data lake, significantly lower TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), and much more. With the self-service migration tool, it’s easy to migrate your data to SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database.

First, we recommend reading this guide that tells you everything you need to know about the tool. To get started with the migration itself, you can find the self-service migration tool within the SAP BTP cockpit. Go to your Space, then, on the left-hand side menu, click on SAP HANA Cloud Migrations.

If you are currently using the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, you can already migrate to SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database by taking advantage of the free, self-service migration tool. All SAP HANA Service users are entitled to use the migration service free of charge.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database offers the same power and performance that you might already be familiar with in SAP HANA. However, SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database is built natively for the cloud, which means greater connectivity and several new features. It’s also a database as a service, offering greater flexibility. With SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database, you don’t have to worry about managing hardware, operating systems, backups, and other types of maintenance. All of this is taken care of by SAP.

SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database can be used to extend SAP HANA on-premise to the cloud. This provides existing SAP HANA customers with more flexibility than their current on-premise solution, without having to start from scratch. With SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database you can get the benefits of SAP HANA optimized fully for the cloud.

This guide gives you the details on how to extend SAP HANA on-premise to the cloud. We recommend starting here.

Yes. Federation/replication capabilities in SAP HANA Cloud, SAP HANA database are identical to the SAP HANA on-premise solutions.

Go to this page to see the full roadmap. You can also see the main highlights of each new SAP HANA Cloud release in our product updates section.

SAP HANA Cloud is available on Azure, AWS, and AliCloud. To see all the different regional data centers for the hyperscalers, please go to this page.

Yes. There are plans to use machine learning in SAP HANA Cloud for automated operations in future.