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Features Overview

Following is an index of the features currently covered by CAP, with status and availability information. In addition, we also list features, which are planned or already in development, but not yet generally available, in order to give you an idea about our roadmap.

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Tag Explanation
    ✔ generally and publicly available today
  n/a not applicable for this combination
in prog. in progress; likely to become available near-term
planned we might pick that up for development soon
contrib? not scheduled for development by us so far

CLI & Tools Support

CLI commands  
cds init <project> ✔
cds add <feature> ✔
cds import <api> ✔
cds compile <models> ✔
cds serve <services> ✔
cds watch ✔
cds repl ✔
cds env ✔
cds build ✔
cds deploy -2 sqlite ✔
cds deploy -2 hana ✔

Run cds help <command> to find details about an individual command. Use cds version to check the version that you’ve installed. To know what is the latest version, see the Release Notes for CAP.


Editors/IDE Support Application Studio VSCode Eclipse
CDS Syntax Highlighting ✔ ✔ ✔
CDS Code Completion ✔ ✔ ✔
CDS Prettyfier ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced Debug/Run Tools in prog.    
Project Explorer in prog.    
…      

CDS Language & Compiler

  CDS
Entity-Relationship Modeling ✔
Custom-defined Types ✔
Views / Projections ✔
Associations & Compositions ✔
Annotations → Common, OData ✔
Aspects ✔
Services… ✔
— w/ Redirected Associations ✔
— w/ Auto-exposed Targets ✔
— w/ Actions & Functions ✔
— w/ Events in prog.
Managed Compositions ✔
Structured Elements planned
Nested Projections planned
Calculated Fields planned
Managed n:m Associations planned
Linters as pluggable architecture contrib?

Providing Services

Core Framework Features CDS Node.js Java
Automatically Serving CRUD Requests n/a ✔ ✔
Deep-Read/Write Structured Documents ✔ ✔ ✔
Automatic Input Validation ✔ ✔ ✔
Auto-filled Primary Keys ✔ ✔ ✔
Implicit Paging ✔ ✔ ✔
Implicit Sorting ✔ in prog. ✔
Access Control ✔ ✔ ✔
Arrayed Elements ✔ ✔ planned
Streaming & Media Types ✔ ✔ in prog.
Conflict Detection through ETags ✔ ✔ ✔
Authentication via JWT n/a ✔ ✔
Basic Authentication n/a ✔ ✔


Enterprise Features CDS Node.js Java
Authorization ✔ ✔ ✔
Analytics in Fiori ✔ in prog. in prog.
Localization/i18n ✔ ✔ ✔
Managed Data ✔ ✔ ✔
Localized Data ✔ ✔ ✔
Temporal Data ✔ ✔ ✔
Dynamic Extensibility ✔ ✔ ✔
Monitoring / Logging n/a in prog. in prog.
Audit logging n/a planned planned


Inbound Protocol Support CDS 1 Node.js Java
REST / OpenAPI in prog. ✔ ✔
OData V2 2 ✔ ✔ in prog.
OData V4 ✔ ✔ ✔
OData V4 for APIs in prog. in prog. in prog.
GraphQL3 contrib? contrib? contrib? 4


1 Export CDS models to …
2 Through V2 proxy; only to support customers with existing V2 UIs
3 Could be a good case for 3rd-party contribution
4 For Java try out the provided sample code.

Consuming Services

Service Consumption APIs Node.js Java
Uniform Consumption APIs → Hexagonal Architecture ✔ ✔
Dynamic Querying ✔ ✔
Programmatic Delegation ✔ ✔
Generic Delegation planned planned
Resilience (retry, circuit breaking, …) in prog. ✔

Using SAP Cloud SDK behind the scenes


Outbound Protocol Support CDS 1 Node.js Java
REST / OpenAPI planned ✔ ✔
OData V2 ✔ ✔ in prog.
OData V4 ✔ ✔ ✔
GraphQL2 contrib? contrib? contrib? 3

1 Import API to CSN
2 Could be a good case for 3rd-party contribution
3 For Java try out the provided sample code.

Events / Messaging

  CDS Node.js Java
Declared Events in CDS ✔ ✔ ✔
Mock Broker to speed up local dev n/a in prog. in prog.
SAP Enterprise Messaging n/a in prog. in prog.
SAP Message Queue n/a planned planned
Event Logs (Kafka) n/a planned planned
Import AsyncAPI planned    
Export AsyncAPI planned    

Database Support

  CDS/deploy Node.js Java
SAP HANA out of the box ✔ ✔ ✔
SAP HANA Cloud ✔ ✔ ✔
Migration to HANA Cloud in prog. n/a n/a
Streamlined Schema Evolution in prog. n/a n/a
— using Liquibase contrib? n/a n/a
— using Flyway contrib? n/a n/a
SQLite out of the box 1 ✔ ✔ ✔
MongoDB out of the box n/a planned in prog.
Pluggable drivers architecture in prog. in prog. in prog.
Out-of-the-box support for other DBs?      

1 To speed up development. Not for productive use!

You can already integrate your database of choice in a project or a contribution level. The last two are meant to further facilitate this by out-of-the-box features in CAP.

UIs/Frontend Support

  CDS Node.js Java
Serving Fiori UIs ✔ ✔ ✔
Fiori Annotations in CDS ✔ ✔ ✔
Advanced Value Help ✔ ✔ ✔
Draft Support ✔ ✔ ✔
Draft for Localized Data ✔ ✔ ✔
Support for Fiori Analytics ✔ in prog. in prog.
Support for other UI technologies, e.g. Vue.js 1 ✔ ✔ ✔

1 through standard REST/AJAX

Platform Support & Integration

  Node.js Java
Deploy to/run on Cloud Foundry ✔ ✔
Deploy to/run on Kubernetes1 contrib? contrib?
SaaS on-/off-boarding ✔ ✔
Multitenancy ✔ ✔
Health checks planned ✔

1 Available on plain Kubernetes level → see blog post by Thomas Jung