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AWS Aurora PostgreSQL to Citus integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus

Keep AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus synchronized in real time, across engines, regions, or services, in one or both directions.

Two databases that must agree is one of the oldest problems in engineering: different engines for different workloads, separate services with overlapping reference data, a migration in flight, or regional instances that share a subset of records. Hand-rolled replication across systems means change capture, conflict handling, and type mapping, all built and maintained by your team.

Stacksync syncs tables or collections between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus continuously and bi-directionally, translating types between the two engines and resolving conflicts by rules you configure. Rows written on either side appear on the other within seconds.

Common use cases

  • Feed operational dashboards from a read replica while the writer handles sync traffic.
  • Expose ERP records such as customers, orders, and invoices as Postgres tables the engineering team can query and update with plain SQL.
  • Consolidate per-tenant rows from distributed tables into per-customer reporting databases.
  • Sync high-volume event or tenant data from a Citus cluster into a warehouse for cross-tenant analytics.

Regional or environment copies

Mirror selected tables to another region or environment continuously, filtered to just the rows that should travel.

Cross-engine sync

Keep the same dataset live in both AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus, so each workload runs on the engine that suits it.

Migration with zero-downtime cutover

When one database is replacing the other, sync both directions during the transition and switch traffic when ready, without a freeze window.

What you can sync between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus

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.

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL objects Citus objects
Replication slots and publications The logical replication objects that power log-based CDC. Sequences Key generators that matter when external writes must not collide with application inserts.
Databases and schemas PostgreSQL's two-level namespace scopes which tables a sync connection targets. Distributed tables Tables sharded across worker nodes by a distribution column; the main sync target for large datasets.
Tables The core sync unit; rows are matched across systems by primary key. Reference tables Small lookup tables replicated to every node, synced like ordinary Postgres tables.
Rows Inserted, updated, and deleted in both directions during bi-directional syncs. Local tables Coordinator-only tables that behave exactly like standard PostgreSQL tables.
Columns Rich Postgres types including JSONB and arrays are mapped to the paired system's fields. Schemas Standard Postgres namespaces used to scope what a sync user can read and write.
Primary keys and constraints Identify rows for upserts and enforce integrity on sync writes. Views Curated projections over distributed data, often used as read-only sync sources.
What ships with AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ Citus

Connect AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every AWS Aurora PostgreSQL–Citus connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or Citus instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or Citus 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL or Citus record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ Citus sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus.

How the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus connectors work

AWS Aurora PostgreSQL

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL-compatible), standard Postgres drivers and JDBC
Authentication
Database credentials, optionally AWS IAM database authentication, over TLS
Change detection
Log-based CDC via PostgreSQL logical replication (WAL decoding through replication slots), with timestamp polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC

Citus

Integration surface
PostgreSQL wire protocol; any standard Postgres driver connects to the coordinator node
Authentication
Database credentials (standard PostgreSQL authentication; managed deployments add cloud IAM options)
Change detection
PostgreSQL logical decoding / CDC, with caveats: changes to distributed tables occur on worker shards, so CDC setup differs from single-node Postgres
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
How it works

How to connect AWS Aurora PostgreSQL to Citus — 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 AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus 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
    AWS Aurora PostgreSQL connected
    Citus connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the AWS Aurora PostgreSQL and Citus 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 · AWS Aurora PostgreSQL ⇄ Citus
    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
    AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Citus
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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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

Securely connects to your systems with:

OAuth 2 SSH Tunnelling SSL certificates IP Whitelisting VPN gateway VPC peering and more

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