Introduction to ABAP on HANA
Through HANA, SAP has brought forth a high performing multi faceted appliance with rich analytic computational capabilities, in-memory hardware, enhanced compression technology, geospatial capabilities, Text analytics and predictive analytics, to name a few. With so powerful a back-end, the application layer too had to be revised to fully leverage the enriched capabilities of HANA. CDS Views, AMDPs, and enhancements to existing Open SQL are the various available solutions which help in achieving Code Push Down – transfer the data intensive logic to the database resulting in better performance. AS 7.4 or above is the required version of application layer on a HANA database for the features mentioned throughout the document to work.
