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title: "MariaDB 10 CONNECT Engine – A Better Way to Access External Data"
publish_date: 2014-03-10
author: "MariaDB"
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# MariaDB 10 CONNECT Engine – A Better Way to Access External Data

Not long ago on a [blog post](internal:blogs/dean/sometimes-its-little-things) Dean Ellis talked about the new MariaDB 10.0, describing some of the ‘little things’ it brings to the community. But I believe that MariaDB 10.0 also brings a lot of ‘big things’ to the table. [Sheeri Cabral](https://twitter.com/sheeri) and myself started covering the CONNECT engine in [OurSQL](http://www.oursql.com/) podcast’s [episode 174](http://technocation.org/content/oursql-episode-174%3A-connect-world). In this article, I’ll go through CONNECT engine indexing, which we didn’t cover on the podcast. Read the whole blog on [www.mariadb.com](https://mariadb.com/blog/mariadb-10-connect-engine-better-way-access-external-data).