Microsoft Entity Framework Provider (or other ORM) for HANA

[Former Member]

Is there an Entity Framework Provider written for HANA?  We extensively use EF in our business applications and we are now being asked to interface with HANA and ODBC is not the most moder way to interact with a data source.  I would be interested in any ORM for the .NET platform, but EF would be ideal.

Thanks,

- Ramsey

[Former Member]

You may want to look into the recently announced River Development Language from SAP. This is very  much going into the Object Modelling direction but in the short term will only "compile" into HANA - although initial marketing suggests the ambition to go cross platform.

regards

Sean

[Former Member]

Hi Ramsey,

We are looking for the same, and understand SAP have no current plans dor such. We ar now considering developing a solution. Would you be interested in joining forces?

Asher

[Former Member]

Hello Ramsey,

You may want to consider using HANA XS for applications development. The advantage is that you are pushing business logic into HANA enabling your application to scale by leveraging the compute capabilities of HANA.

We are looking at ORM approaches and you will see that others on this forum have done pilots with Hiberate and HANA.  In such scenarios, you are only using HANA as database layer and not benefiting from the compute engines that it provides.

You can lean more about XS from these links:

Introducing...SAP HANA Extended Application Services (XS)

http://scn.sap.com/community/developer-center/hana/blog/2013/08/28/xs-appsite-development-on-sap-han...

Regards,

Shah

[Former Member]

Shah,

Thanks for your reply.  I have seen that others are interested in using HANA with ORM.  We are not interested in HANA for native development.