In this video from Netezza, analytic workloads are explained in plain English.
While there are many analytic variants and subspecialties—predictive analytics, in-database analytics, advanced analytics, web analytics, and so on—this text focuses on the characteristic demands that nearly all analytic processing problems place on modern information systems. We refer to these demands as an analytic workload. Every data processing problem has its own unique workload, but analytic workloads tend to share a set of attributes, with strong design and deployment implications for the processing systems assigned to handle these workloads.