Methods and systems for moving a dataset from a relational database to a non-relational database are disclosed. A method includes: copying, by a computing device, source datafiles from a relational database to each of a plurality of region servers associated with a non-relational database; generating, by the computing device, at least one table in the non-relational database from the copied source datafiles; and accessing, by the computing device, the at least one table in the non-relational database by reading raw data stored in a relational database format from the copied source datafiles on one of the plurality of region servers associated with the non-relational database.