What About Database-centric Enterprise Application Integration?

The focus on “big data” and the emergence of hybrid Online Transaction Processing/Online Analytical Processing systems in the database community creates new opportunities for (business) application vendors. More and more business logic is “pushed" to the database, i. e., close to the application data, for faster and more efficient processing, while avoiding unnecessary data shipments. In this position paper, we argue that Enterprise Application Integration should engage in a liaison with the recent data-processing advances, especially for supporting the integration of applications running in the database with remote applications.