1. An apparatus comprising: a physical file system; a virtual file system coupled to the physical file system; and an analytics platform comprising a plurality of compute nodes; wherein the virtual file system is configured to control movement of data between the analytics platform and the physical file system; wherein the analytics platform comprises a unified analytics platform operative in a first configuration to perform database analytics and operative in a second configuration to perform map-reduce analytics; and wherein the virtual file system is implemented using at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory.