{"ref":"content:sap-tech-bytes-hana-client-tools-for-javascript-developers-part-1-hana-client-vs","page":"/content/sap-tech-bytes-hana-client-tools-for-javascript-developers-part-1-hana-client-vs","json":"/content/sap-tech-bytes-hana-client-tools-for-javascript-developers-part-1-hana-client-vs.json","generated":"2026-11-11","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"sap-tech-bytes-hana-client-tools-for-javascript-developers-part-1-hana-client-vs","title":"SAP Tech Bytes: HANA Client Tools for JavaScript Developers - Part 1 hana-client vs hdb","url":"https://community.sap.com/t5/technology-blog-posts-by-sap/sap-tech-bytes-hana-client-tools-for-javascript-developers-part-1-hana/ba-p/13539606","content_type":"blog","published_on":"source:sap-community","explains":["capability:database-connectors"],"summary":"Compares SAP's two official Node.js drivers for connecting to SAP HANA, [@sap/hana-client](artifact:sap-hana-client) and [hdb](artifact:hdb): the former wraps precompiled, OS-specific native libraries and supports the fuller feature set, the latter is a pure JavaScript module with a single dependency and a fraction of the install footprint. It explains why SAP's Cloud Application Programming Model has defaulted to hdb since July 2021 despite hana-client's own documentation recommending it for new projects, and why the author rewrote the hana-cli sample project from hana-client to hdb to avoid shipping multiple copies of the native libraries.","authors":["actor:jung-thomas"],"published":"2022-04-04","provenance":{"discovered_via":[{"source":"source:sap-community","channel":"cap-tag"}],"first_seen":"2026-11-08"},"drafted_with_ai":true},"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Checked against the source","tier":"unknown","evidence":"nobody has checked it"},{"label":"Source reachable","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Age","tier":"poor","evidence":"published 55 months ago"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Version","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no version declared"},{"label":"Moved since?","tier":"good","evidence":"no recorded change after 2022-04-04"},{"label":"Findings","tier":"good","evidence":"none flagged"}],"reach":[{"value":null,"unit":"views"},{"value":null,"unit":"comments"},{"value":null,"unit":"likes"}]},"signals":null,"series":null,"edges":{"authors":[{"ref":"actor:jung-thomas","name":"Thomas Jung","json":"/actors/jung-thomas.json"}]}}