Systems and methods are described for exporting bucket data from one or more buckets to one or more worker nodes. The system can identify data from different bucket data from buckets stored in a data intake and query system that is to be processed by one or more worker nodes. The system can allocate one or more execution resources, such as a processing pipeline, to process and export the bucket data from the buckets. The system can assign bucket data corresponding to individual buckets to the execution resource based on a bucket distribution policy. The indexer can export the bucket data to the worker nodes for further processing based on the bucket data-execution resource assignment.