n8n Data Tables

n8n Data Tables is built-in storage inside n8n: spreadsheet-like tables that workflows can read from and write to directly. It removes the need to wire up an external database or Google Sheet for automation state, lookup lists, or collected records.

Tables live inside the n8n instance, so they work the same on n8n Cloud and self-hosted — and they inherit that deployment's limits. For large datasets or data shared across systems, a real database is still the better home.

Data Tables shipped as a first-party alternative to the workarounds n8n users relied on for years — an external Airtable or Google Sheet, or n8n's own static data feature, which only ever suited small configuration values rather than growing datasets. Each table has typed columns defined up front, and because it is a genuine table rather than a key-value blob, workflows can filter and update specific rows instead of rewriting an entire JSON object.