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mkemeter · 07-27-2022

This blog shows an example application combining SAP AppGyver with the spatial engine of SAP HANA Cloud by making use of GeoServer on BTP as a middleware. Everything has been done on the free tier and can be replicated without involving any license c...

mkemeter · 04-25-2022

Photo by Geio Tischler on Unsplash The SAP HANA Client for Python as of now is only available for x86 Macs. While the client team is planning to release universal binaries, you can continue your work in Python also on the M1 by using Apple's Rose...

mkemeter · 11-22-2021

Today, a colleague approached me with a simple question: Given a table with latitude and longitude values. How do I determine the respective country for each entry? After a series of more advanced geospatial blog posts, I thought it's about time to ...

mkemeter · 09-22-2021

Recently, my family was out for a couple of days, which gave me time to kick start a little spare-time project: An SAP HANA plugin for the open source network analysis client Cytoscape. (Time feels infinite when 4 kids leave the house - so this e...

mkemeter · 08-04-2021

Have you ever worked with native JSON documents in SAP HANA Cloud? If the answer is 'No', you can find some resources to get started here: Official JSON Document Store Guide (the single source of truth!) Getting Started Blog by laura.nevin ...

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Hi Thomas,the SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine is not available for the on-premise versions of SAP HANA. You may consider a hybrid scenario for combining your on-premise SAP HANA with the SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine. For SAP HANA Cloud, the Vector Engin...

mkemeter · 01-10-2024

Hi Leo, as you already pointed out, the Document Store currently does not support unique indexes. In this case, the application has to ensure uniqueness within a collection. From a development perspective, we do have unique indexes on our radar, but...

mkemeter · 12-21-2023

ST_MakeValid has just been released and it seems you've hit a bug here. Generally your approach should be working. However there is an issue with using ST_MakeValid in this constellation. For the time being, you can workaround this by storing and pro...

mkemeter · 11-13-2023

While Cosine Similarity as well as Euclidean Distance are referring to distance metrics, HNSW is referring to an approximative indexing technique, which speeds up similarity searches. From that perspective, HNSW is not another metric function, but ra...

mkemeter · 10-27-2023

Hi Mi! Indeed there has been a recent change in SAP HANA Cloud. Shapefiles are assumed to be UTF-8 encoded as documented in our Spatial Reference. Unfortunately the file at hand contains non-ASCII characters with ISO-8859-1 encoding (e.g. Åland Isla...

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The Fast Food Finder - Connecting AppGyver to SAP HANA's Geospatial Engine

Running hdbcli on an Apple M1 Chip

Linking Latitude and Longitude to Countries with SAP HANA Cloud

Explore Networks using SAP HANA and Cytoscape

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