Benefits of Importing Data with MariaDB CONNECT and PostgreSQL Data Wrappers

There are many ways to import data from external sources into a database. MariaDB and PostgreSQL offer native solutions: the MariaDB CONNECT storage engine and PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers. Unfortunately, these options are often overlooked, in favour of more expensive, more fragile and slower solutions. Let’s see what CONNECT and FDWs are, and why they are often the best choice for importing…