Understanding MaxScale's Cat Router

This page is part of MariaDB's Documentation.

The parent of this page is: Cat Router

Topics on this page:

Overview
What Does the Cat Router Support?
When to Use the Cat Router?

Overview

MaxScale's Cat Router (cat) executes a query on multiple back-end servers, and then it concatenates the result sets from all servers before it returns them to the client.

What Does the Cat Router Support?

The Cat Router (cat) supports:

MariaDB Replication MariaDB Replication deployments
Galera Cluster Galera Cluster deployments

When to Use the Cat Router?

The Cat Router (cat) allows you to:

Get combined results for a query from multiple back-end servers.

Next steps:

Designing for the Cat Router