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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">Dear GDAL/OGR Project Steering Committee,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">We, the SAP HANA Spatial Team, would like to add HANA support to the GDAL library.<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.sap.com/products/hana.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">SAP HANA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E"> is
an in-memory database with an </span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/products/details/?pid=1303"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">OGC-compliant</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E"> </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://help.sap.com/viewer/cbbbfc20871e4559abfd45a78ad58c02/2.0.04/en-US/e1c934157bd14021a3b43b5822b2cbe9.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">spatial
engine</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">.<br>
A free community edition of SAP HANA is available </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.sap.com/cmp/td/sap-hana-express-edition.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">GDAL/OGR supports a great variety of data formats and databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL,<br>
MS SQL, Oracle, IBM DB2 etc. Therefore, the proposed HANA driver would complement<br>
the list of currently supported databases.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">The implementation of the new vector driver for HANA including tests and its integration<br>
into the CI would be done by our team of course with some guidance from the GDAL community.<br>
The driver’s footprint in the code should be minimal, as the whole implementation will reside in<br>
the subfolder </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/master/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/hana"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/tree/master/gdal/ogr/ogrsf_frmts/hana</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">Our team already gathered some experience of working with open source communities.<br>
A few months ago, we introduced support of HANA in </span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/34988"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">QGIS</span></a></span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">and now we continue maintaining our<br>
</span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+HANA"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">contribution</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:#24292E">.
We keep tracking of new issues/bugs, CI runs, API changes, documentation improvements<br>
related to HANA and make sure that they are fixed/implemented as soon as possible. We hope that this<br>
information will minimize your concerns about the future maintenance of the driver.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Kind regards,</span><span lang="EN-US"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Maxim Rylov on behalf of the HANA Spatial Team<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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