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

Keep Affinity 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 Affinity and TiDB

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

Stacksync mirrors Reminders, Lists, List Entries, Persons from Affinity into Sequences, Databases, Tables, Views in TiDB 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

  • Sync notes and reminders into project or task systems used outside the deal team.
  • Mirror deal-flow lists into a warehouse or BI tool for pipeline and portfolio reporting.
  • Serve mixed transactional and analytical workloads on synced data using TiFlash columnar replicas
  • Two-way sync between TiDB tables and SaaS tools so operational edits made in either system converge

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 TiDB, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Affinity become tables in TiDB you can join with application data directly.

What you can sync between Affinity 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.

Affinity objects TiDB objects
Opportunities Deal records tracked on lists and synced with pipeline reporting. Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client.
Field Values Custom field data, either global or scoped to a list, mapped field-by-field in syncs. Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC.
Notes Meeting and call notes synced for record-keeping in other systems. Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward.
Interactions Automatically captured emails and meetings, read for activity reporting. Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system.
Reminders Follow-up tasks associated with people and organizations. Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient.
Lists Pipelines (deal flow, fundraising, portfolio) that structure most Affinity data; syncs usually target a specific list. Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows.
What ships with Affinity ⇄ TiDB

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Affinity 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 Affinity or TiDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Affinity ⇄ TiDB 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 TiDB.

How the Affinity and TiDB 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

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 Affinity 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 Affinity 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
    Affinity connected
    TiDB connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Affinity 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 · Affinity ⇄ 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
    Affinity TiDB
    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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