Glossary

Definitions of terms related to Replication Agent for SAP HANA.

applier – An application service that writes data to the change data capture (CDC) tables using one of the CDC modes and the replicate database user-defined tables when a non-CDC mode is enabled.
builder – An application service that builds shadow tables and other control tables.
container – A server that provides a management application programming interface (API), a logging service, and a repository for metadata.
isql – A command line interactive SQL parser to SAP® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP® ASE).
multitenancy – A network model that allows system administrators to deploy a single instance of the software that runs on a server, serving multiple client organizations known as tenants.
Replication Agent for SAP HANA – A lightweight server that replicates data from a primary to a replicate SAP HANA® database.
Replication Management Agent – A distributed management agent that you can use to easily set up and manage replication from any supported databases to an SAP HANA database.
RMI – remote method invocation

A remote procedure call used for communication between DA server and DA agents.

schema – The structure of the database.
TDS – Tabular Data Stream™

An application protocol by which Open Client™ and SAP® Open Server™ applications exchange information.