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May 2, 2017 · Databases

How Spider Engine Enables Transparent Sharding and XA Transactions in MySQL/MariaDB

Spider is a MariaDB storage engine that adds built‑in sharding, table linking, XA‑compatible distributed transactions, and a pluggable architecture, allowing MySQL queries to be transparently routed to multiple backend nodes while preserving compatibility and offering performance‑optimised DirectSQL execution.