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Exasol to Navan integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Exasol and Navan 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 Exasol and Navan

Land the financial records from Navan in Exasol continuously, and write results back, without building or maintaining a pipeline.

Finance data belongs in the warehouse: revenue, invoices, payments, and customers joined with everything else the business measures. Getting it there usually means an extraction pipeline that breaks quietly and delivers yesterday's numbers.

Stacksync syncs Manual Transactions, Bookings, Custom Fields, Receipts from Navan into tables in Exasol in real time, and the connection works in both directions: values computed in Exasol can be written back to fields in Navan where you want them operational. Schema changes are handled, API limits are managed, and the sync is something you configure rather than code you maintain.

Common use cases

  • 01 Push coded expense transactions into an accounting system, then set their ERP sync status in Navan so the same records are not exported twice.
  • 02 Pull Bookings by date range into a database to reconcile travel reservations against Card Transactions and monitor travel-policy spend.
  • 03 Load CRM and ERP records into Exasol tables on a schedule so analysts query fresh operational data.
  • 04 Sync computed metrics or customer segments from Exasol back into a CRM for sales and marketing use (reverse ETL).

Common sync patterns

Revenue joined with everything else

Analysts combine Navan's financial records with product, marketing, or operational data already in Exasol for reporting the finance system cannot do alone.

Write-back of computed fields

Scores or segments computed in Exasol, like payment-risk flags or customer tiers, sync back onto records in Navan where the finance team can act on them.

Queryable history for audit and reconciliation

A continuously synced copy in Exasol gives you a durable, queryable record of financial data for month-end and audit questions.

What you can sync between Exasol and Navan

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.

Exasol objects Navan objects How this pairing syncs
UDF scripts In-database functions that can transform synced data after load. Connect Transactions External and personal card feed matched into Navan; retrieved read-only and coded with custom-field values through the transaction update endpoint. UDF scripts is specific to Exasol and Connect Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Users and roles Grant read/write access for the dedicated integration account. Manual Transactions Out-of-pocket reimbursements and payroll submissions; synced for approval and reimbursement, then GL-coded back into Navan. Users and roles is specific to Exasol and Manual Transactions to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Schemas Namespaces that group the tables a sync reads from or writes into. Bookings Flight, hotel, rail, and car reservations from the Booking API; pulled read-only by createdFrom/createdTo date range for trip and travel-spend reporting. Schemas is specific to Exasol and Bookings to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Primary sync target; columnar relational tables written with standard SQL. Custom Fields Company metadata such as cost centers and project codes; discovered via GET and their option lists created or updated via async POST. Tables is specific to Exasol and Custom Fields to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only query surfaces often used as curated sources for reverse ETL. Receipts Receipt images tied to each transaction; fetched read-only through presigned URLs for archival in a warehouse or document store. Views is specific to Exasol and Receipts to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Virtual schemas Federated views over external sources; useful for deciding what needs physical replication. Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments Money-movement records including repayments, FX and platform fees, and credit or debit memos; read-only for reconciliation ledgers. Virtual schemas is specific to Exasol and Repayments, Fees, and Adjustments to Navan — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Exasol and Navan

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.

Exasol Navan Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Exasol for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. Polling with timestamp or key columns.

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

Navan Exasol Sub-second propagation

DetectionNavan notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Exasol: No API quota; concurrency is bounded by cluster resources and session limits.
  • Navan: Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
What ships with Exasol ⇄ Navan

Connect Exasol and Navan for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Exasol or Navan instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Exasol or Navan 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 Exasol or Navan record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Exasol and Navan.

How the Exasol and Navan connectors work

Exasol

Integration surface
SQL over JDBC/ODBC drivers and a WebSocket-based client protocol
Authentication
Database credentials (username and password)
Change detection
Polling with timestamp or key columns; Exasol does not expose a transaction-log change feed to clients
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API quota; concurrency is bounded by cluster resources and session limits

Navan

Integration surface
REST (Expense API and Booking API)
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 client-credentials flow; an admin creates a client_id and client_secret under Settings > Integrations and exchanges them at Navan's OAuth token endpoint for a short-lived bearer token that is refreshed on expiry (separate US and EU regional hosts)
Change detection
Navan's Expense API supports webhooks for transaction and expense events; sync engines also poll GET endpoints with date-range and updatedAt filters (createdFrom/createdTo for bookings) to backfill history and reconcile. There is no database-level CDC.
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Requests are throttled with HTTP 429 and Navan recommends retrying with exponential backoff; the Expense/Public API must first be enabled per account by Navan.
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Exasol and Navan 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 · Exasol ⇄ Navan
    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
    Exasol Navan
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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Alerts

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