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Active Directory to Google AlloyDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Active Directory and Google AlloyDB 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 Google AlloyDB

Close the gap between your application data and your directory: Google AlloyDB 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. Google AlloyDB 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 Schemas, Tables, Views, Materialized Views in Google AlloyDB with Directory roles, Service principals & applications, Organizational units, Organizational contacts 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 Mirror CRM objects into AlloyDB tables so product and internal tools query customer data with plain SQL.
  • 02 Use logical replication to feed AlloyDB changes into warehouses or event pipelines without batch jobs.
  • 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

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.

Provision accounts from the source of truth

When a person is added to the employee, member, or customer table in Google AlloyDB, Stacksync creates the matching user in Active Directory with the right attributes, so access starts from live data instead of a manual ticket.

Deprovision the moment the record changes

When someone is marked inactive or removed in Google AlloyDB, the matching account in Active Directory is disabled within seconds, closing the window between a departure and a login that still works.

What you can sync between Active Directory and Google AlloyDB

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 Google AlloyDB objects How this pairing syncs
Organizational contacts Directory contact objects (orgContact); synced for shared address-book and CRM person records. Views Curated projections used as read-only sync sources. Organizational contacts is specific to Active Directory and Views to Google AlloyDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users User accounts in Entra ID and on-prem AD DS; synced two-way to create, update attributes, and enable or disable accounts. Materialized Views Precomputed aggregates refreshed and synced outward on a schedule. Users is specific to Active Directory and Materialized Views to Google AlloyDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Groups Security and Microsoft 365 groups; synced two-way including name, type, and owner, with membership tracked separately. Indexes Keep sync key lookups fast on high-volume tables. Groups is specific to Active Directory and Indexes to Google AlloyDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Group memberships Member and owner links between users and groups; membership add/remove changes are surfaced by delta query. Sequences ID generation relevant when external systems insert rows. Group memberships is specific to Active Directory and Sequences to Google AlloyDB — 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. Replication Slots Logical replication artifacts that back log-based change capture. Devices is specific to Active Directory and Replication Slots to Google AlloyDB — 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. Databases Standard PostgreSQL databases within an AlloyDB cluster that syncs connect to. Directory roles is specific to Active Directory and Databases to Google AlloyDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Active Directory and Google AlloyDB

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 Google AlloyDB 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 Google AlloyDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Google AlloyDB Active Directory Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google AlloyDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via PostgreSQL logical replication.

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.
  • Google AlloyDB: No API-style rate limits; throughput is bounded by instance size.
What ships with Active Directory ⇄ Google AlloyDB

Connect Active Directory and Google AlloyDB for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Active Directory–Google AlloyDB connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Active Directory or Google AlloyDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Active Directory or Google AlloyDB 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 Google AlloyDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Active Directory ⇄ Google AlloyDB 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 Google AlloyDB.

How the Active Directory and Google AlloyDB 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.

Google AlloyDB

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL-compatible), with connectivity through the AlloyDB Auth Proxy or private IP
Authentication
Database credentials or IAM database authentication
Change detection
Log-based CDC via PostgreSQL logical replication; polling on timestamp columns as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API-style rate limits; throughput is bounded by instance size
How it works

How to connect Active Directory to Google AlloyDB — 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.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Active Directory and Google AlloyDB with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Active Directory connected
    Google AlloyDB connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Active Directory and Google AlloyDB 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.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Active Directory ⇄ Google AlloyDB
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Active Directory Google AlloyDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

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Alerts

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