Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing improved scalability of database exports, for use in digital media content or other environments. Data can be stored within and/or provided by an environment which supports the use of persistent disks. By cloning the persistent disks; spawning a plurality of small clusters and exposing only part of the data to each small cluster for processing; and, automatically converting rows of data to records; the exporting of the data can be performed in a trivially-parallelized manner, since it uses an arbitrary number of workers who are not required to communicate with one other. The results of the data export can be written to a cloud storage, or to another storage environment; and, where appropriate for the benefit of subsequent data analysis, converted to, for example, an Avro format.