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Customer.io to TiDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Customer.io 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 Customer.io and TiDB

Mirror Customer.io's data into TiDB so your own code can read and write it like any other table, with changes flowing both ways in seconds.

Engineers integrate with tools like Customer.io through APIs, which means auth, pagination, rate limits, webhooks, and retry logic, all maintained forever and all different for every tool. Meanwhile the data would be trivial to use if it simply lived in TiDB.

Stacksync mirrors Campaigns, Broadcasts, Deliveries / Messages, Newsletters from Customer.io into Sequences, Databases, Tables, Views in TiDB and keeps both sides in sync in real time. Your services query the database directly, and inserts or updates your code makes flow back into Customer.io, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • Push CRM segments and lead status into Customer.io so messaging respects sales stage.
  • Land delivery and engagement events (sent, opened, clicked, bounced) from reporting webhooks into a warehouse for attribution analysis.
  • 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

Read Customer.io with a query

Records from Customer.io are ordinary rows in TiDB; join them, index them, and use them in application logic without touching the vendor API.

Automate Customer.io from your codebase

Write to the synced tables in TiDB and Stacksync propagates the change into Customer.io, replacing custom integration code.

React to changes as they happen

Updates in Customer.io arrive as row changes in TiDB, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

What you can sync between Customer.io 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.

Customer.io objects TiDB objects
Campaigns Automated workflows whose membership and metrics can be read via the App API. Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward.
Broadcasts One-off sends to segments or audiences, triggerable via API. Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system.
Deliveries / Messages Per-recipient message records whose lifecycle events flow out through reporting webhooks. Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient.
Newsletters Recurring email sends with performance metrics available for reporting syncs. Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows.
People Profiles with attributes, matched on identifiers like id or email; the main write target of data syncs. Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client.
Objects Non-person entities such as accounts or companies, related to people for account-level messaging. Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC.
What ships with Customer.io ⇄ TiDB

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Customer.io 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 Customer.io or TiDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Customer.io ⇄ TiDB sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Customer.io and TiDB.

How the Customer.io and TiDB connectors work

Customer.io

Integration surface
REST APIs split by purpose: Track API for data ingestion, App API for campaigns, people lookups, and messages
Authentication
Basic auth with site ID and API key for the Track API; bearer token for the App API
Change detection
Reporting webhooks push message and delivery events; person attribute changes are not streamed and require source-side detection
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Subject to per-API rate limits documented by Customer.io

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the Customer.io 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 · Customer.io ⇄ 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
    Customer.io TiDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Customer.io and TiDB 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.

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ISO 27001
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GDPR
CCPA
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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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