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Sharded MariaDB Enterprise Spider Topology Operations

Learn about ODBC operations in MariaDB Enterprise Spider topology. This section covers configuring and managing ODBC connections to distributed Spider environments for seamless data access.

Provides an overview of using Spider for sharding in MariaDB Enterprise Server, allowing data distribution across multiple nodes for horizontal scalability.

Instructions on how to expand a sharded Spider topology by adding new data nodes (shards) and rebalancing the data distribution.

Guidelines for backing up and restoring a sharded Spider topology, ensuring consistency across multiple shards using tools like MariaDB Backup.

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