diff --git a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_column.py b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_column.py
index 015fe60d2..54c7e2531 100644
--- a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_column.py
+++ b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_column.py
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
 T = TypeVar("T")
 R = TypeVar("R")
 
+# Enable copy-on-write for pandas dataframes
+pd.set_option("mode.copy_on_write", True)
+
 
 class Column(Sequence[T]):
     """
diff --git a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_row.py b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_row.py
index 6994b3248..ac87673ec 100644
--- a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_row.py
+++ b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_row.py
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from collections.abc import Iterator
 
+# Enable copy-on-write for pandas dataframes
+pd.set_option("mode.copy_on_write", True)
+
 
 class Row(Mapping[str, Any]):
     """
diff --git a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_table.py b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_table.py
index 63c9a7cff..e8851422b 100644
--- a/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_table.py
+++ b/src/safeds/data/tabular/containers/_table.py
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
 
     from ._tagged_table import TaggedTable
 
+# Enable copy-on-write for pandas dataframes
+pd.set_option("mode.copy_on_write", True)
+
 
 # noinspection PyProtectedMember
 class Table: