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# MariaDB Enterprise Spider Topologies

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[Federated MariaDB Enterprise Spider Topology](/docs/server/architecture/topologies/mariadb-enterprise-spider-topologies/federated-mariadb-enterprise-spider-topology.md)
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Query, join, or migrate tables on a remote MariaDB Enterprise Server node from a Spider Node using virtual Spider Tables and the MariaDB foreign data wrapper.
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[ODBC MariaDB Enterprise Spider Topology](/docs/server/architecture/topologies/mariadb-enterprise-spider-topologies/odbc-mariadb-enterprise-spider-topology.md)
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Read from and write to external ODBC data sources from a Spider Node using virtual Spider Tables and the ODBC foreign data wrapper (Enterprise Server 10.5 and later).
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[Sharded MariaDB Enterprise Spider Topology](/docs/server/architecture/topologies/mariadb-enterprise-spider-topologies/sharded-mariadb-enterprise-spider-topology.md)
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Partition a large table across multiple MariaDB Enterprise Server Data Nodes using virtual Spider Tables and standard partitioning syntax for horizontal scalability.
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## See Also

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[MariaDB Enterprise Spider Operations](/docs/server/server-usage/storage-engines/spider/spider-storage-engine-introduction/mariadb-enterprise-spider-operations.md)
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