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
go get github.com/SAP/go-hdb/driver
API documentation and documented examples can be found at https://godoc.org/github.com/SAP/go-hdb/driver.
For running the driver tests a HANA Database server is required. The test user must have privileges to create a schema.
go test -dsn hdb://user:password@host:port
- Native Go implementation (no C libraries, CGO).
- Go http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql package compliant.
- Support of databse/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.
- Build-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.
- Additional Authentication Methods (actually only basic authentication is supported).