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Introduction to SAP HANA Connector

You can use SAP HANA Connector to read from SAP HANA databases deployed in the cloud or on-premises. SAP HANA Connector uses the JDBC driver at design time and the ODBC driver at run time.

You can use SAP HANA Connector to perform the following operations:

•Read or lookup data from SAP HANA database tables and views.
•Read data from external views that are created by SAP BW CompositeProviders in the SAP system.

For more information about how to create views for CompositeProviders, see Generating SAP HANA Views for CompositeProviders in the SAP documentation.

•Read data from the following HANA database modelling views:

- Attribute views
- Analytical views
- Calculation views

•Read or write data to SAP Datasphere when you use a secure connection through the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.

For more information about the SAP Datasphere service, see SAP Datasphere in the SAP documentation.

You can use SAP HANA objects as sources or lookups in mappings and mapping tasks.