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Affinity to MariaDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Affinity and MariaDB 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 Affinity and MariaDB

Treat Affinity like part of your database: its records live in MariaDB as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in MariaDB, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Reminders, Lists, List Entries, Persons from Affinity into Columns, Primary and Unique Keys, System-Versioned Tables, JSON Columns in MariaDB with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Affinity with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • 01 Keep introductions and relationship data from Affinity aligned with outreach tools used by the team.
  • 02 Sync notes and reminders into project or task systems used outside the deal team.
  • 03 Keep several MariaDB instances aligned with one system of record across environments
  • 04 Two-way sync between a MariaDB application database and a CRM so both systems hold the same customer records

Common sync patterns

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to MariaDB sync onto the matching records in Affinity, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Affinity API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Affinity arrive as row changes in MariaDB, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

What you can sync between Affinity and MariaDB

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.

Affinity objects MariaDB objects How this pairing syncs
Field Values Custom field data, either global or scoped to a list, mapped field-by-field in syncs. JSON Columns Semi-structured payloads validated with JSON functions. Field Values is specific to Affinity and JSON Columns to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Notes Meeting and call notes synced for record-keeping in other systems. Stored Procedures Server-side logic that can post-process synced rows. Notes is specific to Affinity and Stored Procedures to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Interactions Automatically captured emails and meetings, read for activity reporting. Databases (Schemas) Top-level namespaces that scope a sync's reads and writes. Interactions is specific to Affinity and Databases (Schemas) to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reminders Follow-up tasks associated with people and organizations. Tables The primary sync target; rows map to records in connected systems. Reminders is specific to Affinity and Tables to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Lists Pipelines (deal flow, fundraising, portfolio) that structure most Affinity data; syncs usually target a specific list. Views Read-side projections used as outbound sync sources. Lists is specific to Affinity and Views to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
List Entries The membership of a person, organization, or opportunity on a list, carrying its list-specific fields. Columns Field-level mapping targets with engine-typed values. List Entries is specific to Affinity and Columns to MariaDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Affinity and MariaDB

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.

Affinity MariaDB Sub-second propagation

DetectionAffinity notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is applied to MariaDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

MariaDB Affinity Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in MariaDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Affinity through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Affinity: Subject to the platform's published API rate limits.
  • MariaDB: No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ MariaDB

Connect Affinity and MariaDB for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Affinity–MariaDB connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Affinity or MariaDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity or MariaDB 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 Affinity or MariaDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Affinity ⇄ MariaDB sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Affinity and MariaDB.

How the Affinity and MariaDB connectors work

Affinity

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's published API rate limits

MariaDB

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (MySQL-compatible client/server protocol)
Authentication
Database credentials (connection string or parameters), with optional SSL root certificate upload and optional SSH tunnel (SSH user + host)
Change detection
Database triggers — Stacksync creates deterministic triggers for internal logging and syncing
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by connection limits and server resources
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How it works

How to connect Affinity to MariaDB — 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 Affinity and MariaDB 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
    Affinity connected
    MariaDB connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Affinity and MariaDB 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 · Affinity ⇄ MariaDB
    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
    Affinity MariaDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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