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Google Cloud Spanner to Ldap integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap 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 Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap

Keep Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap in step: the rows in your database and the Person entries (inetOrgPerson / user), Groups (groupOfNames / posixGroup), Organizational units (ou), Attributes your engineering tools track stay consistent in real time, in both directions.

Google Cloud Spanner is where your application's durable data lives; Ldap is where engineering and operations teams track the issues, events, messages, or identities that run alongside it. The two overlap constantly, a row should open a ticket, an alert should land as a record, a user in one should exist in the other, but bridging them today means per-tool integration code: auth, webhooks, pagination, rate limits, and retries, built and maintained separately for every tool.

Stacksync syncs Tables, Rows, Interleaved tables, Secondary indexes in Google Cloud Spanner with Person entries (inetOrgPerson / user), Groups (groupOfNames / posixGroup), Organizational units (ou), Attributes in Ldap field by field, in real time, and in both directions. You decide which system owns which fields; Stacksync keeps every copy consistent and resolves conflicts by rules you set, so the database and the tooling around it never drift apart.

Common use cases

  • 01 Use change streams to feed near-real-time copies of operational tables into an analytics warehouse.
  • 02 Run a two-way sync between Spanner and a SaaS tool so edits made by ops teams land back in the application database.
  • 03 Incrementally sync changed entries by polling modifyTimestamp, keeping a downstream store fresh without dumping the whole directory each cycle.
  • 04 Keep group member and uniqueMember attributes aligned with application entitlement tables so directory access reflects the right teams as they change.

Common sync patterns

Turn rows into the records your tools track

A new or changed row in Google Cloud Spanner creates or updates the matching record in Ldap, whether that is an issue, an event, a message, or a user, so the tool reflects the database without a custom API job.

Land tool activity as queryable rows

Records and events from Ldap arrive in Google Cloud Spanner as rows, so tickets, alerts, messages, or identity changes become joinable data your services and reports read directly.

One integration pattern instead of per-tool API code

Read and write the synced tables in Google Cloud Spanner and Stacksync keeps Ldap current, replacing the auth, webhooks, rate limits, and retry logic you would otherwise maintain for each tool.

What you can sync between Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap

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.

Google Cloud Spanner objects Ldap objects How this pairing syncs
Interleaved tables Child rows physically co-located with parents; synced as related records. Operational attributes Server-maintained metadata such as modifyTimestamp, createTimestamp, entryUUID, entryCSN, and uSNChanged; read to drive incremental polling and to key entries stably across syncs. Interleaved tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Operational attributes to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Secondary indexes Used to make incremental read queries efficient on non-key columns. Schema (subschema subentry) The objectClass and attribute-type definitions the server exposes; read to validate that written attributes exist and are single- or multi-valued as expected. Secondary indexes is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Schema (subschema subentry) to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Change streams Capture inserts, updates, and deletes for log-style change data capture. Entries The fundamental unit of an LDAP directory, each addressed by a distinguished name (DN) and typed by its objectClass; synced two-way as records, with the DN driving upserts and attribute-level updates. Change streams is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Entries to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner. Person entries (inetOrgPerson / user) People held under objectClasses such as inetOrgPerson, person, or Active Directory user; synced two-way to create accounts and update attributes like mail, cn, and telephoneNumber. Views is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Person entries (inetOrgPerson / user) to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration. Groups (groupOfNames / posixGroup) Group entries whose member or uniqueMember attributes list DNs; synced two-way to add and remove membership as teams and entitlements change. Databases is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Groups (groupOfNames / posixGroup) to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets. Organizational units (ou) Container entries that structure the DIT and scope which subtree a sync reads or writes; used to limit a sync to a branch such as ou=People,dc=corp,dc=com. Tables is specific to Google Cloud Spanner and Organizational units (ou) to Ldap — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap

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.

Google Cloud Spanner Ldap Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in Google Cloud Spanner are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries.

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

Ldap Google Cloud Spanner Interval-based propagation

DetectionStacksync polls Ldap for changes on an incremental schedule, reading only records changed since the previous pass. No universal native change feed.

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

Rate-limit considerations

  • Google Cloud Spanner: Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
  • Ldap: LDAP defines no request quota; throughput is bounded by the server's sizelimit and timelimit administrative limits, connection and thread caps, and the CPU/IO it shares with live authentication traffic, so large syncs can contend with production lookups and must page results.
What ships with Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Ldap

Connect Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Google Cloud Spanner–Ldap connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Google Cloud Spanner or Ldap instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Cloud Spanner or Ldap 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 Google Cloud Spanner or Ldap record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Ldap sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap.

How the Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap connectors work

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.

Ldap

Integration surface
LDAPv3 protocol (RFC 4511) over TCP, typically LDAPS on port 636 or StartTLS on 389; reaches any LDAPv3 directory server - OpenLDAP, Microsoft Active Directory, 389 Directory Server, Oracle Unified Directory, PingDS/ForgeRock, NetIQ eDirectory, Apache Directory.
Authentication
A bind DN and password (simple bind), typically over TLS, using a service account with rights to the target subtree. SASL mechanisms - GSSAPI/Kerberos, DIGEST-MD5, or EXTERNAL with a client certificate - are available where the server supports them.
Change detection
No universal native change feed. Incremental sync polls the modifyTimestamp operational attribute (or entryCSN / uSNChanged on servers that expose them) for entries changed since the last cursor; detecting deletes needs a server changelog or tombstones because a plain search cannot see removed entries. Some servers add Persistent Search or RFC 4533 content-sync (syncrepl), but that support is server-specific. No webhooks.
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
LDAP defines no request quota; throughput is bounded by the server's sizelimit and timelimit administrative limits, connection and thread caps, and the CPU/IO it shares with live authentication traffic, so large syncs can contend with production lookups and must page results.
How it works

How to connect Google Cloud Spanner to Ldap — 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 Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap 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
    Google Cloud Spanner connected
    Ldap connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Cloud Spanner and Ldap 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 · Google Cloud Spanner ⇄ Ldap
    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
    Google Cloud Spanner Ldap
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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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