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

Keep Citus and RingCentral 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 RingCentral

Turn the messages, calls, and events RingCentral handles into live rows in Citus, and write back to trigger new outbound communication, with both sides in sync in seconds.

Engineers reach communications tools like RingCentral through APIs, which means auth tokens, webhooks, delivery callbacks, and rate limits, all maintained forever and all shaped differently for every tool. The data those tools produce, who was contacted, what was sent, and what came back, would be simple to use if it lived in Citus next to everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Contacts (Address Book), RingOut (Click-to-call), Team Messaging (Chat), Presence from RingCentral into Local tables, Schemas, Views, Sequences in Citus and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Communication activity lands in the database as ordinary rows you can query and join, and rows your code writes, such as a queued outbound message or an updated contact, flow back into RingCentral so the tool and the database never disagree.

There is no webhook endpoint to host, no rate limit to babysit, and no nightly export that leaves your services reading yesterday's activity.

Common use cases

  • 01 Provision and deprovision Extensions from an HR system or IdP through the Configuration API so the user roster and assigned numbers stay current as people join or leave.
  • 02 Place RingOut click-to-dial calls from a CRM or internal app so reps dial contacts without leaving their workflow.
  • 03 Sync high-volume event or tenant data from a Citus cluster into a warehouse for cross-tenant analytics.
  • 04 Write CRM or billing records into reference tables so distributed queries can join operational context locally on every node.

Common sync patterns

Trigger outbound communication from the database

Write a row to a synced table in Citus and Stacksync propagates it into RingCentral, so your code sends the message, places the call, or schedules the meeting without integration glue.

One contact list across both

Recipients and contacts stay consistent between RingCentral and Citus, so a phone number or email corrected on either side is current the next time either system uses it.

React to activity as it happens

Sends, replies, answered calls, or completed meetings arrive in Citus as row changes, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

What you can sync between Citus and RingCentral

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 RingCentral objects How this pairing syncs
Schemas Standard Postgres namespaces used to scope what a sync user can read and write. Contacts (Address Book) Personal address-book contacts per extension with full CRUD via POST/PUT/DELETE /address-book/contact; the company directory has no create endpoint and is read-only, so only personal contacts are writable. Read and write. Schemas is specific to Citus and Contacts (Address Book) to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Curated projections over distributed data, often used as read-only sync sources. RingOut (Click-to-call) Two-legged calls placed programmatically via POST /account/~/extension/~/ring-out, with status polled via GET and calls cancelled via DELETE; a write/action path for click-to-dial from a CRM or internal app. Write. Views is specific to Citus and RingOut (Click-to-call) to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Sequences Key generators that matter when external writes must not collide with application inserts. Team Messaging (Chat) RingCentral team-messaging chats, teams, and posts (formerly Glip); read conversations and create posts, create teams, and add or remove members to mirror org structure. Read and write. Sequences is specific to Citus and Team Messaging (Chat) to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Distributed tables Tables sharded across worker nodes by a distribution column; the main sync target for large datasets. Presence Real-time presence and detailed telephony state per extension, read via GET presence and subscribed to for live updates, used to reflect agent availability and call status across systems. Read-only. Distributed tables is specific to Citus and Presence to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Reference tables Small lookup tables replicated to every node, synced like ordinary Postgres tables. Subscriptions (Webhooks / WebSocket) Event subscriptions created through the Subscription API with eventFilters (message-store, presence, telephony sessions, extension changes); full CRUD, and the mechanism for near-real-time change delivery over webhooks or WebSocket. Read and write. Reference tables is specific to Citus and Subscriptions (Webhooks / WebSocket) to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Local tables Coordinator-only tables that behave exactly like standard PostgreSQL tables. Message Store (SMS / MMS / Fax / Voicemail) Messages in an extension's mailbox - SMS, MMS, fax, voicemail, and pager - read via GET /account/~/extension/~/message-store filtered by dateFrom/dateTo and messageType; outbound SMS is sent via POST /sms, MMS and fax via POST /fax, and messages can be marked read or deleted. Read and write. Local tables is specific to Citus and Message Store (SMS / MMS / Fax / Voicemail) to RingCentral — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Citus and RingCentral

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.

Citus RingCentral Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Citus are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. PostgreSQL logical decoding / CDC, with caveats: changes to distributed tables occur on worker shards, so CDC setup differs from single-node Postgres.

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

RingCentral Citus Sub-second propagation

DetectionRingCentral notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Subscription API webhooks (with a validation-token echo handshake) or WebSocket subscriptions on eventFilters such as message-store/instant,.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • RingCentral: Per-user (extension) throttling groups per 60 seconds - Heavy 10, Medium 40 (e.g. /sms), Light 50, Auth 5 - as customizable defaults; exceeding returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header and X-Rate-Limit-Group/Limit/Remaining/Window headers.
What ships with Citus ⇄ RingCentral

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Citus or RingCentral 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 RingCentral record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Citus ⇄ RingCentral 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 Citus and RingCentral.

How the Citus and RingCentral 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

RingCentral

Integration surface
REST API (RingEX Platform API) on platform.ringcentral.com, base path /restapi/v1.0, with resources under account/~/extension/~/ (message-store, call-log, sms, fax, ring-out, address-book, presence, subscription) plus the Configuration API for provisioning
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 - authorization code flow (with PKCE) for user-facing apps, and JWT bearer flow for server-to-server integrations; the legacy password (ROPC) grant was retired on March 31, 2024
Change detection
Subscription API webhooks (with a validation-token echo handshake) or WebSocket subscriptions on eventFilters such as message-store/instant, presence, and telephony/sessions; historical pulls poll message-store and call-log on dateFrom/dateTo
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Per-user (extension) throttling groups per 60 seconds - Heavy 10, Medium 40 (e.g. /sms), Light 50, Auth 5 - as customizable defaults; exceeding returns HTTP 429 with a Retry-After header and X-Rate-Limit-Group/Limit/Remaining/Window headers
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How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Citus and RingCentral 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 ⇄ RingCentral
    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 RingCentral
    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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