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Affinity to DuckDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Affinity and DuckDB 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 Affinity and DuckDB

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

Stacksync mirrors Reminders, Lists, List Entries, Persons from Affinity into Attached databases, Database files, Schemas, Tables in DuckDB with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Affinity 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

  • Mirror deal-flow lists into a warehouse or BI tool for pipeline and portfolio reporting.
  • Push enrichment data computed elsewhere into Affinity field values on list entries.
  • Sync SaaS data to Parquet on object storage and query it with DuckDB without standing up a warehouse.
  • Push aggregates computed in DuckDB out to a CRM or business tools so analysis results reach operational systems.

Product events onto CRM records

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

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Affinity API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

What you can sync between Affinity and DuckDB

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.

Affinity objects DuckDB objects
Persons Contact records enriched with relationship intelligence, synced with CRMs and outreach tools. External files (Parquet/CSV/JSON) Files DuckDB queries in place without loading, common as a sync interchange format.
Organizations Company records matched to accounts in other systems by domain. Attached databases Additional database files or external systems attached into one session for cross-source queries.
Opportunities Deal records tracked on lists and synced with pipeline reporting. Database files Single-file .duckdb databases that jobs read and write directly on disk or object storage.
Field Values Custom field data, either global or scoped to a list, mapped field-by-field in syncs. Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize tables in sync outputs.
Notes Meeting and call notes synced for record-keeping in other systems. Tables Columnar tables created via SQL; the destination for materialized sync data.
Interactions Automatically captured emails and meetings, read for activity reporting. Views SQL views used to shape or filter data for downstream consumers.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ DuckDB

Connect Affinity and DuckDB for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Affinity or DuckDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity or DuckDB 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 Affinity or DuckDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Affinity and DuckDB.

How the Affinity and DuckDB connectors work

Affinity

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
API key
Change detection
Webhook subscriptions for record events, supplemented by polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's published API rate limits

DuckDB

Integration surface
In-process SQL engine via client libraries (Python, Node.js, JDBC, CLI); no server or network API by default
Authentication
None built in; access control is file-system level (MotherDuck adds token auth for its hosted service)
Change detection
Polling or full re-reads; no change feed or transaction log API
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by local compute and I/O
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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SECURITY

Security teams love Stacksync

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

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