In the Federated MariaDB Enterprise Spider topology, a Spider Node contains one or more "virtual" Spider Tables. A Spider Table does not store data. When a Spider Table is queried, the Enterprise Spider storage engine uses a MariaDB foreign data wrapper to read from and write to a Data Table on a Data Node.
MariaDB Enterprise Spider:
Supports a MariaDB foreign data wrapper. The MariaDB foreign data wrapper can be used to replace the older Federated and FederatedX storage engines.
Supports an ODBC foreign data wrapper in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5 and later. The ODBC foreign data wrapper is beta maturity. The maturity can be confirmed by querying the table.
The Spider Federated topology:
Can be used to query tables located on a different MariaDB Enterprise Server node from the Spider Node using the MariaDB foreign data wrapper.
Can be used to join tables located on a different MariaDB Enterprise Server node with tables on the Spider Node using the MariaDB foreign data wrapper.
Can be used to migrate tables located on a different MariaDB Enterprise Server node to the Spider Node using the MariaDB foreign data wrapper.
In the Spider Federated topology, a Spider Node contains one or more "virtual" Spider Tables. A Spider Table does not store data. When a Spider Table is queried, the Enterprise Spider storage engine uses a MariaDB foreign data wrapper to read from and write to a Data Table on a Data Node.
The Spider Federated topology consists of:
One MariaDB Enterprise Server node is a Spider Node
One MariaDB Enterprise Server node is a Data Node
The Spider Node:
Contains one or more Spider Tables
Uses the plugin for Spider Tables
Uses a MariaDB foreign data wrapper to query the Data Table on the Data Node
The Data Node:
Contains a Data Table for each Spider Table
Uses a non-Spider storage engine for each Data Table, such as or
The Spider Federated topology can be used to query tables located on another MariaDB Enterprise Server node:
The MariaDB Enterprise Server node with the desired table is configured as a Data Node.
The MariaDB Enterprise Server node that needs to query the table is configured as a Spider Node.
The Data Table is the desired table on the Data Node.
A Spider Table is created on the Spider Node that references the Data Table on the Data Node.
Non-Spider tables can also be referenced in queries with the Spider Table:
The Spider Federated topology can be used to migrate tables from one MariaDB Enterprise Server node to another MariaDB Enterprise Server node:
The MariaDB Enterprise Server node with the source table is configured as a Data Node.
The MariaDB Enterprise Server node with the destination table is configured as a Spider Node.
The Data Table is the source table on the Data Node.
A Spider Table is created on the Spider Node that references the Data Table on the Data Node.
A Spider Table is a virtual table that does not store data. When a Spider Table is queried, the uses foreign data wrappers to read from and write to Data Tables on Data Nodes or ODBC Data Sources.
On the Spider Node, the Data Table is queried by querying the Spider Table like the following:
On the Spider node, the Data Table's data is migrated to the destination table by querying the Spider Table like the following:
Data Node
A Data Node is a MariaDB Enterprise Server node that contains one or more Data Tables.
Data Table
A Data Table stores data for a Spider Table. When a Spider Table is queried, the Enterprise Spider storage engine uses the MariaDB foreign data wrapper to read from and write to the Data Table on a Data Node. The Data Table must be created on the Data Node with the same structure as the Spider Table. The Data Table must use a non-Spider storage engine, such as InnoDB or ColumnStore.
ODBC Data Source
An ODBC Data Source relies on an ODBC Driver and an ODBC Driver Manager to query an external data source.
ODBC Driver
An ODBC Driver is a library that integrates with a ODBC Driver Manager to query an external data source.
ODBC Driver Manager
An ODBC Driver Manager allows applications to use ODBC Drivers.
Spider Node
A Spider Node is a MariaDB Enterprise Server node that contains one or more Spider Tables.
Spider Table
SELECT * FROM spider_tab;SELECT *
FROM spider_tab s
JOIN innodb_tab i
ON s.id=i.id;INSERT INTO innodb_tab
SELECT * FROM spider_tab;[mariadb]
...
plugin_load_add = "ha_spider"INSTALL SONAME "ha_spider";SELECT * FROM information_schema.SPIDER_WRAPPER_PROTOCOLS;CREATE SERVER hq_server
FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER mariadb
OPTIONS (
HOST "192.0.2.2",
PORT 5801,
USER "spider_user",
PASSWORD "password",
DATABASE "hq_sales"
);
CREATE DATABASE spider_hq_sales;
CREATE TABLE spider_hq_sales.invoices (
branch_id INT NOT NULL,
invoice_id INT NOT NULL,
customer_id INT,
invoice_date DATETIME(6),
invoice_total DECIMAL(13, 2),
payment_method ENUM('NONE', 'CASH', 'WIRE_TRANSFER', 'CREDIT_CARD', 'GIFT_CARD'),
PRIMARY KEY(branch_id, invoice_id)
) ENGINE=Spider
COMMENT='server "hq_server", table "invoices"';This page is: Copyright © 2025 MariaDB. All rights reserved.