Hello, the Sphinx Search engine has RT indexes, which could be updated with a subset of SQL commands, refered to as SphinxQL: http://sphinxsearch.com/docs/2.1.1/sphinxql-reference.html Because the FederatedX storage engine uses some commands, which Sphinx does not know, here is a patch, wich extends the FederatedX storage engine to support this subset of commands. Now its possible to update Sphinx RT indexes directly from MariaDB. To create a connection to the RT index in the Sphinx default RT-index: index rt { type = rt path = @CONFDIR@/data/rt rt_field = title rt_field = content rt_attr_string = title rt_attr_string = content rt_attr_uint = gid } you just have to call: CREATE TABLE `rt` ( `id` BIGINT UNSIGNED NOT NULL, `title` TEXT, `content` TEXT, `gid` INT UNSIGNED ) ENGINE=FEDERATED CONNECTION='sphinxql://root@localhost:9306/rt'; It would be great, if the attached patch could be integrated into MariaDB. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to contact me. Best regards, Markus Lidel