Quick Answers

General

Setup

Free Trial

Please go to this page and register for the free 30-day 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.

After the 30-day trial is over, you’ll be given the chance to renew your trial period twice. After 90 days, you can start a new trial, but any data you created on your previous trial instance will be deleted and cannot be recovered.

Sizing and Pricing

The native storage extension is enabled by default in an SAP HANA Cloud instance. In the launch version of SAP HANA Cloud, 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.

Connections and Access

Development

Data Lake

Yes, SAP HANA Cloud and SAP HANA’s SQL engine can process data being stored in the data lake. Nevertheless, 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 the SAP HANA Cloud data lake is presently not available.

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.

Migrating from SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry

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 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 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 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.

Who is eligible to use the self-service migration tool?

If you are currently using the SAP HANA Service on Cloud Foundry, you can already migrate to SAP HANA Cloud 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.

Using SAP HANA On-Premise with SAP HANA Cloud

SAP HANA Cloud offers the same power and performance that you might already be familiar with in SAP HANA. However, SAP HANA Cloud 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, 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.