Now that many enterprises are seeing value in big data analysis, it may be time for their database administrators and data warehouse managers to get involved.

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.

The Oracle Data Integrator for Big Data “makes a non-Hadoop developer instantly productive on Hadoop,” said Jeff Pollock, Oracle vice president of product management.

Big data platforms such as Hadoop and Spark were initially geared more towards programmers than DBAs, using languages such as Java and Python, Pollock said. Yet traditional enterprise data analysis has largely been managed by DBAs and experts in ETL (Extract Transform and Load Tools), using tools such as SQL and drag-and-drop visually-oriented interfaces.

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