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Data warehouse ⇄ CRM

BigQuery to Drift integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep BigQuery and Drift 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 BigQuery and Drift

Sync Drift into BigQuery continuously and push warehouse results back onto CRM records, one two-way connection instead of two pipelines.

The CRM feeds the warehouse and the warehouse should feed the CRM: relationship data flows one way, and computed scores, segments, and customer context flow back. Most teams build the first half as a batch pipeline and never quite get to the second.

Stacksync does both with one connection. Accounts, Users, Playbooks, Meetings from Drift land in BigQuery as live tables, updated within seconds, and columns computed in BigQuery write back to fields in Drift. There is no separate ETL and reverse-ETL stack to stitch together and no jobs to babysit.

Common use cases

  • Land conversation transcripts and outcomes in a warehouse for funnel and chat-to-pipeline analysis.
  • Enrich Drift contact and account records with firmographic or product data from an internal database to sharpen playbook targeting.
  • Land CRM and ERP records in BigQuery continuously so dashboards reflect business systems without nightly batch jobs
  • Activate modeled BigQuery tables by syncing computed attributes back into sales and marketing tools

Scores and segments back on the record

Lead scores, churn risk, or usage segments computed in BigQuery appear as fields in Drift, where the people working accounts actually see them.

A single customer view

Join Drift's relationship data with billing, product, and support data in BigQuery to build the customer picture the CRM alone cannot hold.

Cleanup that sticks

Deduplication and normalization done in BigQuery can be written back, so warehouse-side cleanup actually fixes the CRM.

What you can sync between BigQuery and Drift

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.

BigQuery objects Drift objects
Clustered tables Supported; clustering is transparent to the sync. Playbooks Bot flows that generate conversations and qualify visitors.
Datasets Organizational container — you pick which dataset’s tables to sync. Meetings Meetings booked through Drift, synced to CRM as sales activities.
Projects Connection scope: the service account grants access per project. Contacts Visitor and lead records created or matched from chat identities; the main CRM-sync object.
Tables The syncable unit: only tables can be synced per the Stacksync docs. Conversations Chat threads with status and participants; the center of Drift's data model.
Partitioned tables Synced like regular tables; partition columns map to target fields. Messages Individual messages within a conversation, used for transcript and intent analysis.
What ships with BigQuery ⇄ Drift

Connect BigQuery and Drift for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in BigQuery or Drift instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever BigQuery or Drift 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 BigQuery or Drift record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between BigQuery and Drift.

How the BigQuery and Drift connectors work

BigQuery

Integration surface
GoogleSQL via the BigQuery REST API, client libraries, JDBC/ODBC drivers, and the Storage Read/Write APIs
Authentication
Google Cloud service account: create a dedicated service account, grant roles (BigQuery Data Editor, BigQuery Job User, Cloud Functions Service Agent, Cloud Run Developer, Eventarc Event Receiver
Change detection
Real-time notification service deployed into your Google Cloud project: Eventarc ("a notification service that enables real-time updates to happen") with a Cloud Run "secure portal for real-time notification service in
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Subject to Google Cloud quotas on queries, DML, and streaming; DML is supported but the platform favors append-heavy batch and streaming loads over row-at-a-time writes
BigQuery setup guide

Drift

Integration surface
REST API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via apps registered on the Drift developer platform
Change detection
Webhook events for new conversations, messages, and contact changes; polling for backfills
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

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

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SECURITY

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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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