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Citus to Drift integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Citus and Drift 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 Citus and Drift

Treat Drift like part of your database: its records live in Citus 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 Citus, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Meetings, Contacts, Conversations, Messages from Drift into Views, Sequences, Distributed tables, Reference tables in Citus with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Drift 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

  • Archive historical Drift conversation and contact data into a warehouse ahead of a platform migration.
  • Sync Drift-captured contacts into the CRM so chat-sourced leads enter standard sales workflows immediately.
  • Sync high-volume event or tenant data from a Citus cluster into a warehouse for cross-tenant analytics.
  • Write CRM or billing records into reference tables so distributed queries can join operational context locally on every node.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Drift become tables in Citus you can join with application data directly.

Product events onto CRM records

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

What you can sync between Citus and Drift

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.

Citus objects Drift objects
Sequences Key generators that matter when external writes must not collide with application inserts. Users Agents and sales reps who own conversations and meetings.
Distributed tables Tables sharded across worker nodes by a distribution column; the main sync target for large datasets. Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors.
Reference tables Small lookup tables replicated to every node, synced like ordinary Postgres tables. Meetings Meetings booked through Drift, synced to CRM as sales activities.
Local tables Coordinator-only tables that behave exactly like standard PostgreSQL tables. Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object.
Schemas Standard Postgres namespaces used to scope what a sync user can read and write. Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model.
Views Curated projections over distributed data, often used as read-only sync sources. Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis.
What ships with Citus ⇄ Drift

Connect Citus and Drift for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Citus or Drift instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Citus or Drift 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 Citus or Drift record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Citus and Drift.

How the Citus and Drift connectors work

Citus

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol; any standard Postgres driver connects to the coordinator node
Authentication
Database credentials (standard PostgreSQL authentication; managed deployments add cloud IAM options)
Change detection
PostgreSQL logical decoding / CDC, with caveats: changes to distributed tables occur on worker shards, so CDC setup differs from single-node Postgres
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Citus and Drift 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 · Citus ⇄ Drift
    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
    Citus Drift
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

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SECURITY

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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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