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Apache Pinot to MotherDuck integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Apache Pinot and MotherDuck 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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Adopted by fast-scaling companies moving mission-critical data in real time

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Why teams connect Apache Pinot and MotherDuck

Keep tables consistent across Apache Pinot and MotherDuck, for a migration, a multi-warehouse stack, or a dataset two platforms both need.

Companies end up with two warehouses for practical reasons: a migration in progress, teams that standardized on different platforms, an acquisition, or tools that only connect to one of them. The result is the same dataset maintained twice, with duplicated pipelines and numbers that almost match.

Stacksync syncs tables between Apache Pinot and MotherDuck continuously, in either or both directions. Rows changed on one platform appear on the other within seconds, with schema and type mapping handled, so both warehouses answer questions with the same data.

Common use cases

  • Push reference and dimension data into Pinot via batch segment loads to enrich event queries.
  • Sync Pinot aggregates into a warehouse to join low-latency metrics with modeled historical data.
  • Sync modeled MotherDuck tables outward to operational tools for activation
  • Share curated, synced datasets with other teams through read-only database shares

Shared datasets across teams

Where different teams run different warehouses, sync the curated tables both rely on so their metrics agree by construction.

Consolidation after M&A

Bring the acquired company's warehouse data across continuously instead of through one-off dumps.

Migration without a big bang

When one platform is replacing the other, keep tables mirrored while workloads move over gradually, and cut over with nothing to backfill.

What you can sync between Apache Pinot and MotherDuck

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.

Apache Pinot objects MotherDuck objects
Segments Immutable data files that batch ingestion uploads and the cluster serves. Attached Local DuckDB Databases Local files attached alongside cloud databases for hybrid queries.
Real-time Tables Tables fed continuously from streams like Kafka, including upsert-enabled tables. Databases Cloud-hosted DuckDB databases that scope a sync's reads and writes.
Offline Tables Batch-loaded tables merged with real-time data at query time. Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize synced tables.
Indexes Inverted, range, and star-tree indexes that determine which sync queries run at low latency. Tables The main landing target for synced records and source for analysis.
Tenants Logical groupings that isolate workloads on shared clusters. Views Modeled projections used as outbound sync sources.
Tables The queryable unit, defined as offline, real-time, or hybrid; the main read target. Database Shares Read-only copies of a database shared with other users or teams.
What ships with Apache Pinot ⇄ MotherDuck

Connect Apache Pinot and MotherDuck for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Apache Pinot–MotherDuck connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Apache Pinot or MotherDuck instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Apache Pinot or MotherDuck 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 Apache Pinot or MotherDuck record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Apache Pinot ⇄ MotherDuck sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Apache Pinot and MotherDuck.

How the Apache Pinot and MotherDuck connectors work

Apache Pinot

Integration surface
REST API (SQL queries via the broker; administration via the controller); JDBC client available
Authentication
Deployment-dependent: HTTP basic authentication or token-based auth where enabled
Change detection
Not applicable for reads out (polling by time column); data enters Pinot via streaming ingestion or segment upload, not row-level writes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed API quotas; query throughput depends on broker and server sizing

MotherDuck

Integration surface
SQL through DuckDB clients and drivers using a MotherDuck (md:) connection
Authentication
Access token created in MotherDuck (Settings > General > Create Token), pasted into Stacksync; database name and schema configurable if not using defaults
Change detection
Polling; no log-based CDC or webhook surface is exposed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits
MotherDuck setup guide
How it works

How to connect Apache Pinot to MotherDuck — 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 Apache Pinot and MotherDuck 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
    Apache Pinot connected
    MotherDuck connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Apache Pinot and MotherDuck 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 · Apache Pinot ⇄ MotherDuck
    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
    Apache Pinot MotherDuck
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Apache Pinot and MotherDuck integration FAQ

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.

SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
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GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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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:

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