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DuckDB to Front integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep DuckDB and Front 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 DuckDB and Front

Mirror Front's data into DuckDB 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 Front 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 DuckDB.

Stacksync mirrors Conversations, Messages, Comments, Contacts from Front into Views, External files (Parquet/CSV/JSON), Attached databases, Database files in DuckDB 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 Front, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • Write CRM account tier, owner, and renewal data into Front contact and account custom fields so it shows next to the conversation.
  • Keep Front contacts and accounts aligned with CRM contacts and accounts in both directions.
  • Use DuckDB as a transform step: read synced Parquet exports, aggregate with SQL, and write results back to an operational database.
  • Sync SaaS data to Parquet on object storage and query it with DuckDB without standing up a warehouse.

Read Front with a query

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

Automate Front from your codebase

Write to the synced tables in DuckDB and Stacksync propagates the change into Front, replacing custom integration code.

React to changes as they happen

Updates in Front arrive as row changes in DuckDB, so triggers, jobs, and services can respond in near real time.

What you can sync between DuckDB and Front

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.

DuckDB objects Front objects
Tables Columnar tables created via SQL; the destination for materialized sync data. Messages Inbound and outbound emails, chats, and SMS within a conversation; read out for response-time reporting.
Views SQL views used to shape or filter data for downstream consumers. Comments Internal team notes on conversations; usually read-only in syncs.
External files (Parquet/CSV/JSON) Files DuckDB queries in place without loading, common as a sync interchange format. Contacts People across channels; matched to CRM contacts, with custom fields carrying external context.
Attached databases Additional database files or external systems attached into one session for cross-source queries. Accounts Company groupings of contacts; kept aligned with CRM accounts.
Database files Single-file .duckdb databases that jobs read and write directly on disk or object storage. Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel.
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize tables in sync outputs. Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics.
What ships with DuckDB ⇄ Front

Connect DuckDB and Front for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in DuckDB or Front instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever DuckDB or Front 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 DuckDB or Front record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between DuckDB and Front.

How the DuckDB and Front connectors work

DuckDB

Integration surface
In-process SQL engine via client libraries (Python, Node.js, JDBC, CLI); no server or network API by default
Authentication
None built in; access control is file-system level (MotherDuck adds token auth for its hosted service)
Change detection
Polling or full re-reads; no change feed or transaction log API
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; throughput is bounded by local compute and I/O

Front

Integration surface
REST API (Core API)
Authentication
OAuth authorization via the Stacksync UI ("Connections" > "create new connection" > "Front" > "Authorize") — no coding required
Change detection
Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan.
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How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the DuckDB and Front 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 · DuckDB ⇄ Front
    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
    DuckDB Front
    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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