Organizations are contemplating a replacement of their analytic databases, data warehouses, and similar platforms to keep pace with new and intensifying requirements for advanced analytics in a “big data” world. As user organizations make such platform replacements — or add additional platforms to their expanding data warehouse architectures — they are turning more and more to specialized analytic database management systems (DBMSs). This TDWI checklist report presents requirements for analytic DBMSs with a focus on their use with big data and defines the many techniques and tool types involved.