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

Keep Apache Cassandra and Hibob 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 Hibob

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: Apache Cassandra and Hibob share the same people, positions, and org structure in real time.

Hibob is the system of record for the people side of the business — employees, candidates, roles, and the org structure around them. Apache Cassandra is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment in Hibob need to exist as queryable User-Defined Types, Collections, Counters, Keyspaces in Apache Cassandra before an app can act on them. When that bridge is a nightly export or a hand-run CSV, every downstream system spends the day working from a roster that has already moved on.

Stacksync syncs User-Defined Types, Collections, Counters, Keyspaces in Apache Cassandra with Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment in Hibob field by field, in real time. You decide which system owns which fields — Hibob typically owns identity and org attributes, while operational or computed values can flow back the other way — and Stacksync keeps every copy consistent, matching records on a stable key and resolving conflicts by rules you set.

The result is one live picture of the workforce on both sides: HR keeps its source of truth, and the database keeps a current mirror that internal apps, reports, and access controls can trust without a batch window in between.

Common use cases

  • 01 Replicate high-volume event or profile tables from Cassandra into a warehouse for analytics that CQL cannot express.
  • 02 Sync customer profile data between Cassandra and a CRM so operational apps and sales tools agree.
  • 03 Two-way sync People (employee) profiles and Work records with a Postgres database so internal apps and directories read profiles in SQL while HR corrections flow back into Bob.
  • 04 Auto-provision or deprovision accounts in an IdP, ticketing tool, or app database when Bob Lifecycle events fire employee joined or terminated.

Common sync patterns

One directory of record

When a person record is added, changed, or deactivated in either system, the matching row in the other stays current, ending dual maintenance.

Reporting and analytics on current data

Documents, Named lists, People (Employees), Employment replicate into Apache Cassandra where they join operational tables, so headcount, roles, and status reports run on the live state without manual pulls.

Org and structure stay aligned

Groups, departments, managers, and reporting lines from Hibob stay consistent in Apache Cassandra, so hierarchy-driven logic and permissions don't drift.

What you can sync between Apache Cassandra and Hibob

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 Hibob objects How this pairing syncs
Materialized Views Server-maintained denormalized views; considered experimental and disabled by default in recent releases. Lifecycle Hire, termination, and leave status changes at /people/{id}/lifecycle; read-only and the source of lifecycle webhook events. Materialized Views is specific to Apache Cassandra and Lifecycle to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Secondary Indexes Optional indexes that allow filtered reads outside the partition key. Documents Employee documents accessed under the Docs API; gated behind the Documents permission granted per service user. Secondary Indexes is specific to Apache Cassandra and Documents to Hibob — 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. Named lists Dropdown option lists such as departments and sites used to resolve field values when mapping People records during sync. User-Defined Types is specific to Apache Cassandra and Named lists to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Collections List, set, and map columns handled with type-aware field mapping. People (Employees) Core employee records with out-of-the-box and custom fields; read via POST /people/search, created and updated through the /people endpoints. Collections is specific to Apache Cassandra and People (Employees) to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Counters Increment-only counter columns, usually read-only in syncs. Employment Historical table of job terms, contract, and working pattern under /people/{id}/employment; full CRUD, entries keyed by effectiveDate. Counters is specific to Apache Cassandra and Employment to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Keyspaces Top-level namespaces with replication settings that scope a sync connection. Work Reporting line, department, site, and title under /people/{id}/work; drives the org chart and is synced two-way to directories. Keyspaces is specific to Apache Cassandra and Work to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Apache Cassandra and Hibob

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 Hibob 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 Hibob through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Hibob Apache Cassandra Sub-second propagation

DetectionHibob notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events.

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.
  • Hibob: Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
What ships with Apache Cassandra ⇄ Hibob

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

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Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apache Cassandra or Hibob 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 Hibob record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the Apache Cassandra and Hibob 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

Hibob

Integration surface
REST API (the Bob API)
Authentication
Service User credentials over HTTP Basic auth (Base64-encoded serviceUserId:serviceUserToken); permissions granted per data category (People, Payroll, Documents) in Bob admin
Change detection
Webhooks fire for employee created/updated/deleted, table-entry created/updated, time off, and lifecycle events; the employee.updated payload flags which fields changed and Bob recommends an API call for the full record. There is no CDC stream, and deleting a table entry fires no webhook (Bob has no table-entry deletion event).
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Rate limits are enforced per service user; violations return HTTP 429 with X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, and X-RateLimit-Reset response headers. The docs list POST /people/search at 50 requests per minute, and bulk /people/search is preferred over per-record reads.
Hibob setup guide
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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