Introduction
We will be addressing persistent data storage in the modern HANA platform. How are tables created in XSA? What role do HANA Deployment Infrastructure (HDI) containers play in this respect? What are the advantages of SAP’s Cloud Application Programming Model (CAP)? We will answer these exciting and essential questions with the help of an example project which we have created in the Business Application Studio (BAS).
HDI Containers
Based on our first blog, we know that the introduction of XSA resulted in a fundamental paradigm shift in creating native HANA models. The approach of a central (database-focused) system is giving way to a cloud-focused system with separate applications and dedicated services. But how are applications separated, exactly?
