Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Active Directory or CockroachDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
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Active Directory to CockroachDB integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Active Directory and CockroachDB in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Active Directory and CockroachDB
Close the gap between your application data and your directory: CockroachDB and Active Directory share users, groups, and access in real time, in both directions.
Active Directory is the system of record for who people are and what they can reach: users, the groups they belong to, and the applications assigned to them. CockroachDB holds the operational data those same people show up in, whether an employee or member table that decides who should have an account at all, a customers list, or the rows an application checks before it authorizes an action. The two describe overlapping users and groups, and when a nightly export or a hand-run script is all that connects them, accounts lag joiners and leavers and the application authorizes against a stale picture of who has access.
Stacksync syncs Changefeeds, Databases, Schemas, Tables in CockroachDB with Users, Groups, Group memberships, Devices in Active Directory field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields, with the directory holding credentials and group membership and the database holding the source list of people who should exist at all, and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, resolving conflicts by rules you set. A person added to a table becomes an account within seconds, a departure disables one just as fast, and the directory's users and groups are always present in your tables as ordinary rows.
Common use cases
- 01 Use changefeeds to propagate row changes from a multi-region cluster into a warehouse or search index.
- 02 Keep reference data consistent between CockroachDB and regional application databases.
- 03 Two-way sync Users and Groups between Microsoft Entra ID and an HRIS or Postgres so joiners, movers, and leavers provision and deprovision automatically.
- 04 Read Users, Groups, and directoryRole assignments into a warehouse for periodic access reviews and SOC 2 audit evidence.
Common sync patterns
Read users and groups as ordinary tables
Users, groups, and their memberships from Active Directory land in CockroachDB as rows your application and queries can join, so authorization checks and access reporting run against the database instead of the directory API.
Keep group and role membership aligned
A group or role change made in either system updates the other, so the entitlements an application enforces match what the directory grants.
One profile, kept current
A name, department, email, or manager corrected in either system updates the other, so the profile the directory shows and the data the application reads stop drifting apart.
What you can sync between Active Directory and CockroachDB
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Active Directory objects | CockroachDB objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. | Views Read-only projections used as curated sync sources. | Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Views to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Devices Registered and joined device objects; typically read into a database for inventory and compliance reporting. | Indexes Secondary indexes that keep sync lookup queries fast on key columns. | Devices is specific to Active Directory and Indexes to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Directory roles Admin role assignments (directoryRole); read for access reviews and least-privilege governance. | Sequences ID generators that matter when writes originate from an external system. | Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Sequences to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Service principals & applications App registrations and enterprise apps; read-mostly for entitlement and license inventory. | Changefeeds Built-in CDC streams that emit row-level changes to external sinks. | Service principals & applications is specific to Active Directory and Changefeeds to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational units On-prem AD DS containers (LDAP organizationalUnit) used to scope which users and groups a sync includes. | Databases Logical containers a sync connects to, addressed like PostgreSQL databases. | Organizational units is specific to Active Directory and Databases to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. | Schemas Namespaces within a database used to isolate synced tables from application tables. | Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Schemas to CockroachDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Active Directory and CockroachDB
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Active Directory CockroachDB Sub-second propagation
DetectionActive Directory notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers.
DeliveryEach detected change is applied to CockroachDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
CockroachDB Active Directory Sub-second propagation
DetectionChanges in CockroachDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. CDC via changefeeds, which stream row-level changes.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Active Directory through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Active Directory: Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
- CockroachDB: No API rate limits in the SaaS sense; throughput is bounded by cluster capacity.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ CockroachDB
Connect Active Directory and CockroachDB for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–CockroachDB connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or CockroachDB data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Active Directory or CockroachDB record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Active Directory ⇄ CockroachDB sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Active Directory and CockroachDB.
How the Active Directory and CockroachDB connectors work
Active Directory
- Integration surface
- Microsoft Graph REST API (Entra ID / cloud) and LDAP/LDAPS (on-premises AD DS)
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0 via the Microsoft identity platform — an app registration with application or delegated permissions (e.g. User.ReadWrite.All, Group.ReadWrite.All) and admin consent; on-prem AD DS uses a bound service account over LDAPS.
- Change detection
- Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- Graph throttles by resource-unit cost per app per tenant in 10-second windows (about 3,500–8,000 units by tenant size); directory delta tokens expire after ~7 days.
CockroachDB
- Integration surface
- SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL-compatible)
- Authentication
- Database credentials with TLS; client certificates or SCRAM password auth
- Change detection
- CDC via changefeeds, which stream row-level changes; polling as a fallback
- Capabilities
- read · write · CDC
- Rate limits
- No API rate limits in the SaaS sense; throughput is bounded by cluster capacity
How it works
How to connect Active Directory to CockroachDB — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Active Directory and CockroachDB with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
Active Directory
connected
CockroachDB
connected
OAuth 2.0SSH tunnelSSL certificateVPC peering - 02
Choose tables
Pick the Active Directory and CockroachDB objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Active Directory ⇄ CockroachDBCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Active Directory CockroachDBCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Active Directory and CockroachDB integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Active Directory and CockroachDB: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Active Directory's Group memberships and Devices), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Active Directory and CockroachDB connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Active Directory–CockroachDB integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Active Directory and CockroachDB. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
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Change detection on Active Directory: Microsoft Graph delta query (change tracking) for Users and Groups, plus change-notification subscriptions (webhooks) for near-real-time triggers; on-prem AD DS uses the DirSync control and uSNChanged polling. On CockroachDB: CDC via changefeeds, which stream row-level changes; polling as a fallback. Each detected change propagates to the other side in milliseconds, with field-level conflict resolution and an inspectable event log.
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On the CockroachDB side: Changefeeds, Databases, Schemas, Tables, plus custom fields where CockroachDB exposes them. On the Active Directory side: Users, Groups, Group memberships, Devices. Stacksync auto-detects both schemas and converts types between the two systems.
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Yes. Each object mapping can be bidirectional or restricted to a single direction (both systems accept writes). Read-only mirrors, one-way pushes, and full two-way sync can be mixed in the same integration.
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Alerts
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