Provides an overview of using Spider for sharding in MariaDB Enterprise Server, allowing data distribution across multiple nodes for horizontal scalability.
Choose an operation for the Sharded MariaDB Enterprise Spider topology:
How to add a new shard to a Spider Table.
The character set or collation for the Spider Table can be updated or modified using the statement.
On the Spider Node, alter the Spider Table's character set and collation:
If the new character set and collation are not compatible with the character set and collation used by the Data Table, you must also alter the character set and collation for the Data Table on the Data Node.
In a Sharded MariaDB Enterprise Spider topology, the connection options for a Data Node can be updated using the statement.
On the Spider Node, alter the partition's connection details:
How to create a new backup or restore an existing backup.
How to update the character set or collation for a Spider Table.
How to update the connection options for a Data Node.
ALTER TABLE spider_sharded_sales.invoices
DEFAULT CHARACTER SET 'utf8mb4'
DEFAULT COLLATE 'utf8mb4_general_ci';ALTER TABLE spider_sharded_sales.invoices
REORGANIZE PARTITION hq_partition INTO (
PARTITION hq_partition VALUES IN (1) COMMENT = 'server "new_hq_server", table "invoices"'
);