Can I learn & practice HANA on my home laptop with the server-only version of HANA Express?

[Former Member]

Can I learn & practice HANA on my home laptop with the server-only version of HANA Express

Or do I need the "Server + Applications" version of HANA Express to fully learn HANA Development?

p.s. As I don't have the requisite 16 GB RAM, so I can't install the "Server + Applications" version of HANA Express.

[Former Member]

Hi

I know that I'm handicapped using only the "Server only" version of HANA Express , so I'll be grateful if someone can point me a easy way out to practice full HANA course using home laptop.

[lsubatin]

Hi, Rajat,

If you want to learn the new techniques HANA native development as Thomas says, you can run the full image with XSA on the cloud providers. Some of them may give you free credits to get started and run for months if you turn the machine off once you're done. They will ask for your credit card details for validation purposes. Here is an example of that: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hxe-gcp-getting-started-launcher-xsa.html

And all of the deployment options for express are here: https://developers.sap.com/topics/sap-hana-express.html

Cheers,

Lucia.

[thomas_jung]

With Server only you are missing XSA, HDI and the SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA. So while you can use some older techniques using the HANA Studio in Server only, you are certainly missing out on the modern tools/techniques.

[Former Member]

Thank you Sir for the answer.

Can you please elaborate what you meant by "older techniques using the HANA Studio in Server only" ?

I'm totally new to HANA technology/ installation .

Thanks & Regards,

Rajat

[thomas_jung]

We had old programming models and tools based upon HANA Studio, XS Classic and the HANA Repository. They have been replaced for a few years now by SAP Web IDE for SAP HANA, HDI, and XS Advanced.

[vbalko-claimate]

Hello Rajat,

You can download Hana Studio here. It is Eclipse based Hana IDE. You can install it on your machine and use it to develop in hana 1.0 or hana 2.0 old model.

And by older techniques Thomas meant XSJS development model. You can find more about it e.g. here.

[Former Member]

Hi Vladmir,

Thanks for replying. I have already downloaded HANA Express. So do I still need to install HANA studio separately again?

I'm little confused. I thought HANA express serves the purpose of "HANA Studio" !!

Also, as I said I have 8 GB Ram (not up-gradable to higher RAM) , so I can only install the HANA Express(Server only version) & not the "Server+Application" version.

So do I still need Eclipse if I use the "HANA Express" (Server-only version)??

Can you plz clarify?

Regards,

Rajat

[vbalko-claimate]

If you installed Server only version, then you dont have WEB IDE as a development IDE (its part of that SERVER+Applications) installation option.

In your case, you need to install hana studio and connect it to to your express. But you dont have capabilities of XSA. Just old HANA 1.0 options (XSJS and SQLScript)