Oracle has released a new extension for its Oracle Data Integrator middleware that allows DBAs and data warehouse experts to treat big data repositories as just another data source, alongside their structured databases and data warehouses.

ODI provides the ability for organizations to pull together data from multiple sources and formats, such as relational data hosted in IBM or Microsoft databases, and material residing in Teradata data warehouses. So it was a natural step to connect to big data repositories to ODI as well.

The software can work with any Hadoop or Spark deployment, and doesn’t require software installation on any of the data nodes.

Using the power of distributed computing, Data Integrator for Big Data uses the nodes where the data is stored to carry out all the computations needed.

Oracle is not alone in attempting to bridge the new big data tools with traditional data analysis software. Last week, Hewlett-Packard released a software package that allows customers to integrate HP’s Vertica analysis database with HP Autonomy’s IDOL (Intelligent Data Operating Layer) platform, providing a way for organizations to speedily analyze large amounts of unstructured data.

Author: Joab Jackson

Publish Date: 06/04/2015

 Source: www.cio.com