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SAP Hana to Tableau integration — real-time data sync

Keep SAP Hana and Tableau in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect SAP Hana and Tableau

Give Tableau the users, events, and records that live in SAP Hana in real time, and sync the cohorts and scores Tableau computes back into SAP Hana where your applications read them.

Tableau is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into SAP Hana, so SAP Hana always reflects the current state of Tableau — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

A database holds the rows your business runs on: the users, events, orders, and records that every service reads and writes. Tableau is where people make sense of them, as dashboards, funnels, cohorts, and metrics. Moving the data from SAP Hana into Tableau usually means a hand-built extract or a change-data-capture pipeline that breaks the moment a column is renamed, and reporting that always trails last night's load.

Common use cases

  • 01 Read Databases, Tables, and Fields from the Metadata API to populate a data catalog with Tableau lineage and column definitions.
  • 02 Mirror the Projects and Workbooks content hierarchy into an internal catalog so teams discover dashboards from a central index.
  • 03 Detect inserts, updates, and deletes on high-write tables via AFTER triggers or a last-modified column and replicate the deltas downstream near-real-time.
  • 04 Read SYS.TABLES and TABLE_COLUMNS system views to auto-discover schema and generate field mappings when new tables are added to the sync.

Common sync patterns

Where Tableau tracks product events: behavior onto stored records

Signup, usage, and lifecycle events captured in Tableau sync into SAP Hana as rows, so applications and internal tools can read behavioral data next to the records they already keep.

Where Tableau builds cohorts or scores: results your services can read

Segments, cohorts, or scores computed in Tableau sync back into SAP Hana, where the services that read from the database act on them at query speed without calling the analytics API.

Analytics on live operational data, minus the pipeline

The users, events, orders, and records stored in SAP Hana land in Tableau as they change, so dashboards, funnels, and metrics run on current data instead of last night's extract.

What you can sync between SAP Hana and Tableau

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

SAP Hana objects Tableau objects How this pairing syncs
Triggers AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers capture changes into a shadow/logging table so updates and deletes are detected near-real-time without full scans. Published Data Sources Published data sources (.tdsx); their underlying rows are read via the VizQL Data Service, and refresh state is tracked through content webhooks. Triggers is specific to SAP Hana and Published Data Sources to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
System-versioned temporal tables Column store tables with a history table tracking each row's validity period; used to reconstruct update and delete history for change capture. Workbooks Workbook content and metadata read via the REST and Metadata APIs; create, update, and delete events fire webhooks for change detection. System-versioned temporal tables is specific to SAP Hana and Workbooks to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
System views (SYS schema) Catalog and monitoring views such as SYS.TABLES and TABLE_COLUMNS; read to discover schema and auto-generate field mappings for new tables. Views Worksheets and dashboards inside workbooks; their data and crosstab export as CSV via the REST query-view-data endpoint. System views (SYS schema) is specific to SAP Hana and Views to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Column store tables HANA's default table type, optimized for analytics; synced two-way as rows over the SQL interface with the primary key driving upserts and delete tracking. Projects Folders that organize content and set permissions; listed via REST to mirror the site's content hierarchy into a catalog. Column store tables is specific to SAP Hana and Projects to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Row store tables OLTP-oriented tables held fully in memory; read and written the same way through the SAP HANA client for high-write operational tables. Users Site users with site roles and group membership; read via REST for access reviews and to reconcile identities against an HR or IdP source. Row store tables is specific to SAP Hana and Users to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Calculation views Modeled analytic views over base tables; read-only sources for pushing aggregated or joined results into a warehouse or downstream app. Databases and Tables External assets indexed by Tableau Catalog; queried via the Metadata API GraphQL endpoint for lineage and impact analysis. Calculation views is specific to SAP Hana and Databases and Tables to Tableau — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between SAP Hana and Tableau

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

SAP Hana Tableau Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in SAP Hana are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Polling on a last-modified timestamp column, or AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers writing to a shadow table.

DeliveryTableau does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Tableau's output flows back as field updates on the originating SAP Hana records.

Tableau SAP Hana Sub-second propagation

DetectionTableau notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire on workbook and data source create/update/delete and extract refresh events.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to SAP Hana as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • SAP Hana: No SaaS-style request quota; throughput is bounded by connection limits, statement memory caps, and workload-class admission control (concurrency/memory limits) that share capacity with production queries.
  • Tableau: Tableau Cloud enforces per-site REST rate limits and returns HTTP 429; a PAT allows only one concurrent session and expires after 15 consecutive days of non-use.
What ships with SAP Hana ⇄ Tableau

Connect SAP Hana and Tableau for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every SAP Hana–Tableau connection.

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in SAP Hana or Tableau instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever SAP Hana or Tableau data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single SAP Hana or Tableau record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your SAP Hana ⇄ Tableau sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between SAP Hana and Tableau.

How the SAP Hana and Tableau connectors work

SAP Hana

Integration surface
SQL over the SAP HANA client (JDBC/ODBC drivers); OData/REST via XS for app-layer access
Authentication
Dedicated database user credentials over an encrypted TLS connection (password sent hashed); Kerberos, SAML, JWT, and X.509 certificate authentication are also supported. SAP HANA Cloud enforces TLS and IP allowlisting.
Change detection
Polling on a last-modified timestamp column, or AFTER INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE triggers writing to a shadow table; system-versioned temporal tables and SLT/SDI provide trigger- and log-based CDC. No native webhooks.
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No SaaS-style request quota; throughput is bounded by connection limits, statement memory caps, and workload-class admission control (concurrency/memory limits) that share capacity with production queries.

Tableau

Integration surface
REST API, Metadata API (GraphQL), and VizQL Data Service
Authentication
Sign-in via Personal Access Token (PAT) or username/password returns a credentials token sent as the X-Tableau-Auth header; Connected Apps issue JWTs for OAuth-style access. One active session per PAT.
Change detection
Webhooks fire on workbook and data source create/update/delete and extract refresh events; otherwise content and metadata are polled via REST list endpoints (updatedAt) and the Metadata API.
Capabilities
read · webhooks
Rate limits
Tableau Cloud enforces per-site REST rate limits and returns HTTP 429; a PAT allows only one concurrent session and expires after 15 consecutive days of non-use.
How it works

How to connect SAP Hana to Tableau — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate SAP Hana and Tableau with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    SAP Hana connected
    Tableau connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the SAP Hana and Tableau objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · SAP Hana ⇄ Tableau
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    SAP Hana Tableau
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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