1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: generating, by a processor circuit, a general request having a format conforming to a query language native to a client application and having structures and information to perform an analytical calculation on data, the general request generated by the client application; determining whether the general request identifies a distributed database system to perform the analytical calculation on the data; determining whether the distributed database system includes an embedded process to perform an in-database analytic calculation according to the general request; and when the general request identifies the distributed database system and the distributed database system includes the embedded process, converting the structures and information of the general request to a compute request having a request format different than the format native to the client application, the request format conforming to a query language used to manage information by the distributed database system, sending the compute request to a node of the distributed database system, and receiving a compute response from the node of the distributed database system, the compute response including a result set of the analytical calculation performed on data local to the node from an analytic container implemented by the node, the analytic container including an embedded process to replicate an execution environment hosted within the distributed database system used by the client application.