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# Connect Using Connector/R2DBC

Java developers can use MariaDB Connector/R2DBC to connect to MariaDB Cloud using the Reactive Relational Database Connectivity (R2DBC) API. R2DBC operations are non-blocking, which makes the R2DBC API more scalable than Java's standard JDBC API. MariaDB Connector/R2DBC is available both with a native R2DBC implementation and the Spring Data R2DBC framework.

Visit the [MariaDB R2DBC Connector](/docs/connectors/mariadb-connector-r2dbc.md) page.