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CONNECTING DATABASE WORKBENCH TO MARIADB UPDATE
With access to live MariaDB data from MySQL Workbench, you can easily query and update MariaDB, just like you would a MySQL database.
Many hosting companies only set up default users for local connections. My first suspicion would be security settings at the webhost, blocking IPs/ports, or that there needs to be a database user set up for remote IPs, that sort of thing.
You can use the SQL Gateway from the ODBC Driver for MariaDB to query MariaDB data through a MySQL interface.