A Guide to CDS View SAP – Types and Functioning

 SAP CDS is a setup for data modelling where data is defined and consumed on the database server and not on the application server. Hence, SAP HANA database can be used to meet real-time analytics. Data models can be created by developers using SAP CDS where application servers are exposed to clients as CDS view SAP.

Since CDS (Core Data Service) views are virtual data models of SAP HANA, CDS view SAP allows direct access to the tables of the HANA database. The launch of the CDS view SAP was mainly targeted at moving logic from the application server to the client-side database and was defined by SAP as ‘Code -to-Data’ or ‘Code Pushdown.’

CDS view SAP performs this ‘Code -to-Data’ or ‘Code Pushdown’ by selecting logic from the ABAP application and executing it on the database instead of the application server. Therefore, CDS view SAP is a design-time file in the storage repository that is created by SAP HANA XS (Extended Application Services).



CDS View SAP has several cutting-edge features that enable it to carry out real-time data analytics on live transactional data. It is not essential to know about the underlying tables or structures which can be either combined with new enhanced views or consumed directly for creating new data models. 

Types of CDS view SAP

There are currently two types of CDS view SAP namely HANA CDS Views and ABAP CDS Views. However, CDS is also available in SAP NetWeaver as ABAP and users can work with this programming layer while allotting the execution layer to the database.        

CDS View SAP supports in-built extensions and functions, relationship definitions, and conceptual modeling, all of which are a vast improvement over traditional data modeling tools.


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