1. A federated system for supporting an application to perform analytics, the federated system comprising: a first distributed system for performing one or more first tasks including processing incoming data into a set of data blocks; an in-memory database system for performing one or more second tasks including receiving the set of data blocks from the first distributed system and storing the set of data blocks in an internal storage; and a second distributed system for performing one or more third tasks including receiving at least one data block of the set from the in-memory database system and performing analytics on the at least one data block, wherein execution of the first, second, and third tasks are controlled via a scripting language utilized by the application and associated with the in-memory database system, wherein the one or more third tasks includes receiving results of the analytics from the second distributed system and storing the results in the internal storage.