Difference between local DB and Cloud DB (HANA)

Hi all,

I am developing a web application to be deployed on the HANA Cloud (with HANA as db).

If I deploy the application locally I get a whole bunch of errors like:

SQLFeatureNotSupportedException: Feature not implemented: NATIONAL CHAR VARYING.

Internal Exception: java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Schema 'DEMO' does not exist

However, deployment on the Cloud completes successfully.

While the single issues can be addressed from a technical standpoint, I'm more interested towards a general issue:

in order to be useful, local testing should be as similar as possible to the execution on the Cloud system.

Of course I don't expect the local db to store data column-wise as HANA might, but at least I'd like to have consistent behavior at least in the basic tasks such as table creation.

I'd be interested in knowing the best practice to achieve this result.

I can see many options:

• configure the local AS to connect to a different DB (which one?)
• configure the local AS to connect to the HANA DB on the Cloud (is that possible?)
• ...

Can anyone please shed some light?

Thanks, regards

Vincenzo