Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving and executing a query received from a data intake and query system and providing results to a first group of worker nodes in a distributed execution environment. The query identifies a set of data to be processed and a manner of processing the set of data. Based on the query, the system defines a query processing scheme, and generates instructions for a second group of worker nodes to obtain the set of data from one or more dataset sources and to process the set of data. The system communicates results of the query to the first group of worker nodes.