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AWS Aurora PostgreSQL to Hibob integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Hibob

Put your workforce data where your apps can reach it: AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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. AWS Aurora PostgreSQL is where internal tools, dashboards, provisioning jobs, and analytics actually read and store records. The overlap is the workforce itself: Salaries, Time off, Lifecycle, Documents in Hibob need to exist as queryable Tables, Rows, Columns, Primary keys and constraints in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 Tables, Rows, Columns, Primary keys and constraints in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL with Salaries, Time off, Lifecycle, Documents 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 Keep a customer-facing Aurora database aligned with an internal admin tool, with writes accepted on both sides.
  • 02 Feed operational dashboards from a read replica while the writer handles sync traffic.
  • 03 Sync Time off requests and who's-out data into a scheduling or workforce-planning database for coverage and capacity reporting.
  • 04 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.

Common sync patterns

Org and structure stay aligned

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

Computed and operational fields flow back

Values assembled or corrected in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL write onto the matching record in Hibob where those fields are writable, keeping the people system enriched.

Mirror people records into the database

Records maintained in Hibob land as queryable Tables, Rows, Columns, Primary keys and constraints in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL, so internal apps and dashboards read live data instead of a periodic export.

What you can sync between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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.

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL objects Hibob objects How this pairing syncs
Databases and schemas PostgreSQL's two-level namespace scopes which tables a sync connection targets. Time off Absence requests and who's-out data via /timeoff/employees/{id}/requests and /timeoff/whosout; submit new requests and read balances. Databases and schemas is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Time off to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables The core sync unit; rows are matched across systems by primary key. Lifecycle Hire, termination, and leave status changes at /people/{id}/lifecycle; read-only and the source of lifecycle webhook events. Tables is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Lifecycle to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Rows Inserted, updated, and deleted in both directions during bi-directional syncs. Documents Employee documents accessed under the Docs API; gated behind the Documents permission granted per service user. Rows is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Documents to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Columns Rich Postgres types including JSONB and arrays are mapped to the paired system's fields. Named lists Dropdown option lists such as departments and sites used to resolve field values when mapping People records during sync. Columns is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Named lists to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Primary keys and constraints Identify rows for upserts and enforce integrity on sync writes. 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. Primary keys and constraints is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and People (Employees) to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views and materialized views Usable as read-only sources for filtered or precomputed sync datasets. Employment Historical table of job terms, contract, and working pattern under /people/{id}/employment; full CRUD, entries keyed by effectiveDate. Views and materialized views is specific to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Employment to Hibob — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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.

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Hibob Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via PostgreSQL logical replication (WAL decoding through replication slots), with timestamp polling as a fallback.

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

Hibob AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 applied to AWS Aurora PostgreSQL as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.

Rate-limit considerations

  • 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ Hibob

Connect AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Hibob for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every AWS Aurora PostgreSQL–Hibob connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or Hibob instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or Hibob record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ Hibob sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Hibob.

How the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Hibob connectors work

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL-compatible), standard Postgres drivers and JDBC
Authentication
Database credentials, optionally AWS IAM database authentication, over TLS
Change detection
Log-based CDC via PostgreSQL logical replication (WAL decoding through replication slots), with timestamp polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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
    AWS Aurora PostgreSQL connected
    Hibob connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL 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 · AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ 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
    AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Hibob
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Hibob integration FAQ

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Alerts

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