florianloch/go-hdb

SAP HANA Database Client for Go

go-hdb

Go-hdb is a native Go (golang) HANA database driver for Go's sql package. It implements the SAP HANA SQL command network protocol:
http://help.sap.com/hana/SAP_HANA_SQL_Command_Network_Protocol_Reference_en.pdf

For the official SAP HANA client Go support (not this database driver) please see SAP Help Portal.

Installation

go get github.com/SAP/go-hdb/driver

Building

To build go-hdb you need to have a working Go environment with version 1.10.4 or higher installed.

Documentation

API documentation and documented examples can be found at https://godoc.org/github.com/SAP/go-hdb/driver.

Tests

To run the driver tests a HANA Database server is required. The test user must have privileges to create database schemas.

go test -dsn hdb://user:password@host:port

Features

• Native Go implementation (no C libraries, CGO).
• Go http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql package compliant.
• Support of database/sql/driver Execer and Queryer interface for parameter free statements and queries.
• Support of bulk inserts.
• Support of UTF-8 to / from CESU-8 encodings for HANA Unicode types.
• Built-in support of HANA decimals as Go rational numbers http://golang.org/pkg/math/big.
• Support of Large Object streaming.
• Support of Stored Procedures with table output parameters.
• Support of TLS TCP connections.
• Support of little-endian (e.g. amd64) and big-endian architectures (e.g. s390x).

Dependencies

• http://golang.org/x/text/transform

Todo

• Additional Authentication Methods (actually only basic authentication is supported).