Managing database queries using a deconstructed cloud database including receiving, by a communications manager of the deconstructed cloud database, a state specification from a client computing system; converting, by a query optimizer of the deconstructed cloud database, the state specification into a query plan comprising a database query targeting an offloaded execution engine; retrieving, by a dispatcher of the deconstructed cloud database, query results from the offloaded execution engine using the database query; and presenting, by the communications manager, the query results to the client computing system.