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Apache Cassandra to Autopilot integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Apache Cassandra and Autopilot 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 Apache Cassandra and Autopilot

Sync the records in Apache Cassandra into Autopilot and land its embeddings, classifications, and generated fields back on the same rows, in real time and without a pipeline to maintain.

AI systems do not hold customers or invoices the way business apps do. What they hold is derived from your data: the vectors and metadata in a vector store, or the classifications, extracted fields, and generated text a model produces over records it was given. Apache Cassandra is where those source records actually live. The bridge between the two is the row itself, since an item in Autopilot and the record in Apache Cassandra it describes are two halves of the same thing, and they drift the moment one is updated without the other.

Stacksync syncs Partitions and Rows, Materialized Views, Secondary Indexes, User-Defined Types in Apache Cassandra with Custom Fields, Smart Segments, Journeys (Triggers), Activities in Autopilot in real time. Rows created or changed in Apache Cassandra flow into Autopilot so inference and embedding run on current data, and the scores, labels, and generated fields Autopilot produces flow back onto the matching rows in Apache Cassandra, mapped field by field. A change on either side appears on the other within seconds, with no extraction job or webhook plumbing to keep alive.

Because matching is by a stable identifier, every row in Apache Cassandra stays tied to its AI-side counterpart in Autopilot. Retrieval, enrichment, and generated content always resolve back to the record they came from, so there are no orphaned vectors and no labels describing a version of a row that no longer exists.

Common use cases

  • 01 Add contacts to a Journey from a database event or CRM stage change to start automated onboarding or nurture sequences.
  • 02 Mirror List and Smart Segment membership into a warehouse to power attribution and audience analytics alongside other sources.
  • 03 Sync customer profile data between Cassandra and a CRM so operational apps and sales tools agree.
  • 04 Write attributes computed elsewhere (scores, preferences) back into Cassandra tables serving low-latency reads.

Common sync patterns

One record, one identifier

Each item in Autopilot carries the key of the row in Apache Cassandra it came from, so results resolve back to the exact record with nothing orphaned or duplicated.

Run the AI on current data

Rows created or changed in Apache Cassandra flow into Autopilot as they happen, so embeddings, classifications, and prompts run on the latest records instead of a nightly snapshot.

Write results back onto the record

Scores, labels, extracted fields, or generated text produced in Autopilot land on the matching row in Apache Cassandra, next to the source data your applications already query.

What you can sync between Apache Cassandra and Autopilot

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.

Apache Cassandra objects Autopilot objects How this pairing syncs
Keyspaces Top-level namespaces with replication settings that scope a sync connection. Custom Fields User-defined contact properties (string, number, date, boolean); discovered so field keys map cleanly to destination columns. Keyspaces is specific to Apache Cassandra and Custom Fields to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Wide-column tables addressed by partition key, the unit of row-level sync. Smart Segments Rule-based dynamic audiences; membership is computed by Autopilot, so it is read-only over the API. Tables is specific to Apache Cassandra and Smart Segments to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Partitions and Rows Records located by partition and clustering keys during reads and upserts. Journeys (Triggers) Automation journeys; a contact can be added to a journey via its trigger endpoint to start automated email or SMS sequences. Partitions and Rows is specific to Apache Cassandra and Journeys (Triggers) to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Materialized Views Server-maintained denormalized views; considered experimental and disabled by default in recent releases. Activities Per-contact activity and event history (opens, clicks, journey steps); read-only feed used for engagement reporting. Materialized Views is specific to Apache Cassandra and Activities to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Secondary Indexes Optional indexes that allow filtered reads outside the partition key. Contacts Core people records (email, name, custom fields, list and segment membership); upserted two-way as the primary sync object. Secondary Indexes is specific to Apache Cassandra and Contacts to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
User-Defined Types Composite column types that syncs must flatten or map to structured fields. Lists Static contact lists; membership is readable per list and writable by adding or removing contacts. User-Defined Types is specific to Apache Cassandra and Lists to Autopilot — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Apache Cassandra and Autopilot

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.

Apache Cassandra Autopilot Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Apache Cassandra are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Commit-log based CDC on tables with CDC enabled, or polling using writetime metadata and timestamp columns.

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

Autopilot Apache Cassandra Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Autopilot for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No CDC.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Apache Cassandra: No API quotas; throughput is governed by cluster capacity and consistency-level choices.
  • Autopilot: The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
What ships with Apache Cassandra ⇄ Autopilot

Connect Apache Cassandra and Autopilot for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Apache Cassandra–Autopilot connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Apache Cassandra or Autopilot instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apache Cassandra or Autopilot 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 Apache Cassandra or Autopilot record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Apache Cassandra ⇄ Autopilot sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

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EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Apache Cassandra and Autopilot.

How the Apache Cassandra and Autopilot connectors work

Apache Cassandra

Integration surface
CQL over the Cassandra native binary protocol
Authentication
Database credentials (password authenticator); TLS and role-based grants where configured
Change detection
Commit-log based CDC on tables with CDC enabled, or polling using writetime metadata and timestamp columns
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API quotas; throughput is governed by cluster capacity and consistency-level choices

Autopilot

Integration surface
REST API (Autopilot v1); Autopilot rebranded to Ortto in 2021 and the newer Ortto API co-exists with the legacy Autopilot endpoints
Authentication
Per-account API key sent in the autopilotapikey request header (generated in account settings); requests use Content-Type application/json against https://api2.autopilothq.com/v1/
Change detection
No CDC; incremental sync polls the /contacts endpoint with bookmark cursor pagination and updated timestamps. Journey webhook actions can push specific contact events, but there is no general change-subscription webhook, so polling is the reliable path.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
The REST API is capped at 100 requests/minute per account; exceeding it returns HTTP 429. Enterprise plans can request a higher limit. Contact writes accept an array for bulk upsert, and list and segment reads paginate via a bookmark cursor.
Autopilot setup guide
How it works

How to connect Apache Cassandra to Autopilot — 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 Apache Cassandra and Autopilot 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
    Apache Cassandra connected
    Autopilot connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Apache Cassandra and Autopilot 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 · Apache Cassandra ⇄ Autopilot
    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
    Apache Cassandra Autopilot
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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