A method and system, the system including a plurality of machines each having a processor and a main memory component; a shared distributed storage facility storing a set of data and accessible by the plurality of machines over a communication network; a controller to select, in response to a state of a query execution plan comprising a plurality of executable jobs for the set of data, which one of a set of scheduling algorithms to execute; an execution engine to execute the selected scheduling algorithm to determine, for each job in the plurality of jobs, which server to schedule to execute the respective job; and providing an indication of the scheduling of the servers determined to be schedules for the execution of the jobs.