SAP Hana can be used as a substitute database for any sort of application, including a LAMP application on Laravel. This is particularly useful when real-time features and all the rich features of HANA are required.
Recently, there appears to have been a push towards moving application code closer to the actual database via XS Engine and XSJS applications. I understand that this is essentially an app server that serves applications natively in SAP Hana.
Here's the dilemma. Tallyfy (my venture) is a PHP/Laravel application running on mySQL or SQL Server.
What are the options to get it as close as possible to being a native UI5 app by re-writing as little code as possible?