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Tableau to TiDB integration — real-time data sync

Keep Tableau and TiDB 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 Tableau and TiDB

Give Tableau the users, events, and records that live in TiDB in real time, and sync the cohorts and scores Tableau computes back into TiDB where your applications read them.

Tableau is a read-only source: Stacksync reads its data in real time and delivers it into TiDB, so TiDB always reflects the current state of Tableau — without exports, scripts, or schedulers.

A database holds the rows your business runs on: the users, events, orders, and records that every service reads and writes. Tableau is where people make sense of them, as dashboards, funnels, cohorts, and metrics. Moving the data from TiDB into Tableau usually means a hand-built extract or a change-data-capture pipeline that breaks the moment a column is renamed, and reporting that always trails last night's load.

Common use cases

  • 01 Mirror the Projects and Workbooks content hierarchy into an internal catalog so teams discover dashboards from a central index.
  • 02 Track Extract Refresh Tasks and DatasourceRefreshFailed webhook events to raise alerts in a database or ticketing system when refreshes fail.
  • 03 Two-way sync between TiDB tables and SaaS tools so operational edits made in either system converge
  • 04 Stream row-level changes to a warehouse or Kafka via CDC for near-real-time analytics

Common sync patterns

Where Tableau tracks product events: behavior onto stored records

Signup, usage, and lifecycle events captured in Tableau sync into TiDB as rows, so applications and internal tools can read behavioral data next to the records they already keep.

Where Tableau builds cohorts or scores: results your services can read

Segments, cohorts, or scores computed in Tableau sync back into TiDB, where the services that read from the database act on them at query speed without calling the analytics API.

Analytics on live operational data, minus the pipeline

The users, events, orders, and records stored in TiDB land in Tableau as they change, so dashboards, funnels, and metrics run on current data instead of last night's extract.

What you can sync between Tableau and TiDB

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.

Tableau objects TiDB objects How this pairing syncs
Views Worksheets and dashboards inside workbooks; their data and crosstab export as CSV via the REST query-view-data endpoint. Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward. Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in the writable direction.
Users Site users with site roles and group membership; read via REST for access reviews and to reconcile identities against an HR or IdP source. Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client. Users is specific to Tableau and Databases to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Databases and Tables External assets indexed by Tableau Catalog; queried via the Metadata API GraphQL endpoint for lineage and impact analysis. Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC. Databases and Tables is specific to Tableau and Tables to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Extract Refresh Tasks Scheduled extract refreshes; status and history read via REST, with DatasourceRefreshSucceeded and Failed events delivered by webhooks. Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system. Extract Refresh Tasks is specific to Tableau and Columns to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Fields and Columns Columns and calculated fields with their descriptions, exposed by the Metadata API; read to populate a data catalog with governed definitions. Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient. Fields and Columns is specific to Tableau and Indexes to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Published Data Sources Published data sources (.tdsx); their underlying rows are read via the VizQL Data Service, and refresh state is tracked through content webhooks. Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows. Published Data Sources is specific to Tableau and Sequences to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Tableau and TiDB

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.

Tableau TiDB Sub-second propagation

DetectionTableau notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Webhooks fire on workbook and data source create/update/delete and extract refresh events.

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

TiDB Tableau Sub-second propagation

DetectionChanges in TiDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks.

DeliveryTableau does not accept inbound record writes, so this direction carries requests rather than records: Tableau's output flows back as field updates on the originating TiDB records.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Tableau: Tableau Cloud enforces per-site REST rate limits and returns HTTP 429; a PAT allows only one concurrent session and expires after 15 consecutive days of non-use.
  • TiDB: Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas.
What ships with Tableau ⇄ TiDB

Connect Tableau and TiDB for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Real-time sync

Changes in Tableau or TiDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Tableau or TiDB 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 Tableau or TiDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Tableau and TiDB.

How the Tableau and TiDB connectors work

Tableau

Integration surface
REST API, Metadata API (GraphQL), and VizQL Data Service
Authentication
Sign-in via Personal Access Token (PAT) or username/password returns a credentials token sent as the X-Tableau-Auth header; Connected Apps issue JWTs for OAuth-style access. One active session per PAT.
Change detection
Webhooks fire on workbook and data source create/update/delete and extract refresh events; otherwise content and metadata are polled via REST list endpoints (updatedAt) and the Metadata API.
Capabilities
read · webhooks
Rate limits
Tableau Cloud enforces per-site REST rate limits and returns HTTP 429; a PAT allows only one concurrent session and expires after 15 consecutive days of non-use.

TiDB

Integration surface
MySQL wire protocol (SQL)
Authentication
Database credentials (MySQL-compatible username/password)
Change detection
Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks; polling also works
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Tableau and TiDB 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 · Tableau ⇄ TiDB
    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
    Tableau TiDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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

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