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CockroachDB to Google Cloud Spanner integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner 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 CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner

Keep CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner 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 CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner 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

  • Use changefeeds to propagate row changes from a multi-region cluster into a warehouse or search index.
  • Keep reference data consistent between CockroachDB and regional application databases.
  • Consolidate data from a globally distributed Spanner deployment into regional business systems.
  • Push billing or entitlement changes from finance tools into Spanner tables the application reads at runtime.

Shared reference data between services

Services that own separate databases stay consistent on the records they share, without a custom replication layer.

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 CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner, so each workload runs on the engine that suits it.

What you can sync between CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner

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.

CockroachDB objects Google Cloud Spanner objects
Changefeeds Built-in CDC streams that emit row-level changes to external sinks. Views Read-only projections useful for shaping data before it leaves Spanner.
Databases Logical containers a sync connects to, addressed like PostgreSQL databases. Databases Top-level containers that scope schema and sync configuration.
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to isolate synced tables from application tables. Tables Relational tables mapped one-to-one to sync targets.
Tables The core read/write target; rows sync bi-directionally with SaaS objects or other databases. Rows The unit of read and write in each sync cycle, keyed by primary key.
Views Read-only projections used as curated sync sources. Interleaved tables Child rows physically co-located with parents; synced as related records.
Indexes Secondary indexes that keep sync lookup queries fast on key columns. Secondary indexes Used to make incremental read queries efficient on non-key columns.
What ships with CockroachDB ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner

Connect CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every CockroachDB–Google Cloud Spanner connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in CockroachDB or Google Cloud Spanner instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever CockroachDB or Google Cloud Spanner 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 CockroachDB or Google Cloud Spanner record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your CockroachDB ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner.

How the CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner connectors work

CockroachDB

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (PostgreSQL-compatible)
Authentication
Database credentials with TLS; client certificates or SCRAM password auth
Change detection
CDC via changefeeds, which stream row-level changes; polling as a fallback
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
No API rate limits in the SaaS sense; throughput is bounded by cluster capacity

Google Cloud Spanner

Integration surface
gRPC/REST client API with SQL query surface (GoogleSQL and PostgreSQL-interface dialects)
Authentication
Google Cloud IAM (service accounts)
Change detection
Change streams (log-style CDC), or timestamp-based polling queries
Capabilities
read · write · CDC
Rate limits
Throughput is bounded by the instance's provisioned compute capacity rather than a fixed API quota.
How it works

How to connect CockroachDB to Google Cloud Spanner — 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 CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner 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
    CockroachDB connected
    Google Cloud Spanner connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the CockroachDB and Google Cloud Spanner 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 · CockroachDB ⇄ Google Cloud Spanner
    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
    CockroachDB Google Cloud Spanner
    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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