Install your free SAP HANA, express edition
- You will need a minimum of 8GB RAM for the database server only and 16GB for the database + XS Advanced applications*. If you do not have enough RAM in your local computer, you can quickly deploy SAP HANA, express edition in the cloud (see: https://developers.sap.com/topics/sap-hana-express.html#deployment ).
- SAP HANA, express edition is available for free, for development and productive use, up to 32GB of RAM.
- SAP HANA combines an ACID-compliant, in-memory database with advanced analytics processing, such as geospatial, graph, document store and machine learning libraries.
* Learn more about how to check RAM on a Windows computer (see: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hxe-ram-disk-ms.html ) or on a Mac computer (see: https://developers.sap.com/tutorials/hxe-ram-disk-mac.html ).