Differences between HANA Studio and Eclipse ?

[Former Member]

Wanted to know what is the differences between using HANA Studio with Cloud platform tools and Eclipse ?

Does any benefits over eclipse by using SAP HANA Studio?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rajeesh,

Eclipse(Luna or Kepler) is an open source IDE.

Kepler is mainly used for application development and implementing SDK components which can be done by HANA studio also.

HANA is completely SAP owned and supported.

HANA client is needed for connecting from your Windows/Unix machine to HANA server which run outside of the environment in which the client is running.

Using MAC OS, HANA studio can be installed but HANA client cannot.

There is no need of HANA client if all your development and run is in HANA web IDE.

Only the HANA server URL is required.

HANA studio is an Eclipse-based development and administration tool for working with HANA. It runs on Eclipse 3.6 platform. It is like Eclipse libraries which are used in implementation of scripts, ABAP, Java.

To create tables and views, installion of  Hana studio and Hana client is must.

You can install HANA studio tools as eclipse plugins. Server side Java scripts(.XSJS), XSODATA files can be accessed and updated. It can debug SQL scripts codes. 

[thomas_jung · Accepted solution]

There are some incorrect statements in this response.

>To create tables and views, installion of  Hana studio and Hana client is must.

False:  The HANA Studio doesn't require the installation of the HANA Client. It hasn't since SPS 07 version.  So in order to create tables/views only the installation of the HANA Studio is needed.

But more to your original question:

>Wanted to know what is the differences between using HANA Studio with Cloud platform tools and Eclipse ?

There is no material difference. The end result is the same functionality.  Only the installation process is different. The HANA Studio based installer does change the default desktop icon and the "theming" of Eclipse to show SAP/HANA titles and logos, but this is purely cosmetic.  There are even ways to make these same theming changes to the standalone Eclipse add-in based installation of HANA Studio.

>Does any benefits over eclipse by using SAP HANA Studio?

The benefits of one over the other only has to do with the installation/update process.  Some developers already have Eclipse installed for other tooling, for instance Java development.  Therefore its nice for them to be able to add the HANA Studio tools into that existing Eclipse installation and not have a separate IDE. This is actually what the HANA internal development teams at SAP mostly use. We get daily builds via an update site and install those into Eclipse which also contains other tools.

On the other hand, some organizations like the HDBSetup type installation of the standard HANA Studio installer.  This way one complete installation can be pushed via a software download mechanism like Microsoft SMS.  We also use this approach at SAP for field workers (consultants and sales). This way they get the latest stable version of HANA Studio pushed to their machine via same software update mechanisms that we use for everything else.