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An example database system comprises one or more database servers configured to serve database data of a database and configured to provide database services and a generic database gateway server coupled to the one or more database servers, the generic database gateway server configured to provide an interface to define analytic database services which can be called during run-time by inputting a uniform resource identifier at a user device to provide to the user device with database server data processed by one or more predefined analytic operations, the generic database gateway server being configured to obtain, during design time, a specification of an analytic database service by selecting database server data of the one or more database servers and one or more analytic operations to be applied on the selected data by the analytic database service, convert the obtained specification of the analytic database service into one or more objects in a format that can be processed on the one or more database servers, wherein the one or more objects include one or more analytic database service data objects specifying one or more attributes of the analytic database service and one or more analytic database service metadata objects, the one or more analytic database service metadata objects including annotations to the attributes of the one or more analytic database service data objects to be processed by the one or more database servers to implement the one or more predefined analytic operations and provide the one or more converted objects to the one or more database servers to be called by a user by inputting a uniform resource identifier.
