Andrew,

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 3:25 AM Andrew Gable via discuss <discuss@lists.mariadb.org> wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I hope someone can guide me. 
 
You don't specify if data on front ends is read-only or the type of link between frontend and backend.

Anyway I've always been a big fan of FederatedX which might still work:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/about-federatedx/

You can create a connection on the front-end systems and then create a projection of each needed table in one of two ways:
1) create a federated table in the front end pointing to a back-end table and then a local view for the column restriction
2) create a view on the backend and a federatedx table at front end pointing to the view on the backend

If that doesn't work you may have a look at:
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/connect/
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/connect-external-table-types/

Cheers
Claudio