diff --git a/crates/dbx-core/Cargo.toml b/crates/dbx-core/Cargo.toml
index 4f8f4696a..139d3183e 100644
--- a/crates/dbx-core/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/dbx-core/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ name = "dbx-core"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
+[features]
+default = ["duckdb-bundled"]
+duckdb-bundled = ["duckdb/bundled"]
+
 [dependencies]
 serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_json = "1.0"
@@ -17,7 +21,7 @@ uuid = { version = "1", features = ["v4", "serde"] }
 sqlx = { version = "0.8", features = ["runtime-tokio", "tls-rustls", "mysql", "postgres", "sqlite", "json", "chrono", "uuid", "rust_decimal"] }
 redis = { version = "0.32.2", features = ["tokio-comp", "tls-rustls", "tokio-rustls-comp"] }
 rustls = { version = "0.23", features = ["aws-lc-rs"] }
-duckdb = { version = "1.3.2", features = ["bundled"] }
+duckdb = "1.3.2"
 tiberius = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, features = ["tds73", "chrono", "rust_decimal", "rustls"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", default-features = false, features = ["json", "stream", "rustls-tls"] }
 futures = "0.3"
diff --git a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
index 8cb56e569..b9db65012 100644
--- a/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src-tauri/Cargo.toml
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ tauri-plugin-window-state = "2"
 redis = { version = "0.32.2", features = ["tokio-comp", "tls-rustls", "tokio-rustls-comp"] }
 rustls = { version = "0.23", features = ["aws-lc-rs"] }
 portpicker = "0.1.1"
-duckdb = { version = "1.3.2", features = ["bundled"] }
+duckdb = "1.3.2"
 tiberius = { version = "0.12.3", default-features = false, features = ["tds73", "chrono", "rust_decimal", "rustls"] }
 tokio-util = { version = "0.7", features = ["compat"] }
 reqwest = { version = "0.12", features = ["json", "stream"] }