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

Keep DuckDB and Nutshell 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 Nutshell

Treat Nutshell like part of your database: its records live in DuckDB as real tables, and writes in either place sync to the other in seconds.

Product and engineering teams constantly need CRM data, and the CRM API is a poor way to get it: rate limits, pagination, custom objects, and integration code that breaks when an admin renames a field. What they actually want is the data in DuckDB, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Tasks, Notes, Products, Tags from Nutshell into Attached databases, Database files, Schemas, Tables in DuckDB with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in Nutshell with validation intact. Go-to-market teams keep working in the CRM, engineers keep working in the database, and neither has to think about the other.

Common use cases

  • Push closed-won leads to accounting software to trigger invoicing automatically.
  • Keep People and Companies consistent between Nutshell and email marketing or outreach tools.
  • Push aggregates computed in DuckDB out to a CRM or business tools so analysis results reach operational systems.
  • Use DuckDB as a transform step: read synced Parquet exports, aggregate with SQL, and write results back to an operational database.

Internal tools without API code

Back-office apps read and write the synced tables; Stacksync handles the Nutshell API, limits, and retries.

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

Field and stage updates in Nutshell arrive as row changes in DuckDB, ready to drive jobs and notifications.

Query the CRM like a database

Accounts, contacts, and custom objects from Nutshell become tables in DuckDB you can join with application data directly.

What you can sync between DuckDB and Nutshell

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 Nutshell objects
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize tables in sync outputs. Activities Logged calls, meetings, and emails used for engagement reporting
Tables Columnar tables created via SQL; the destination for materialized sync data. Tasks Rep to-dos mirrored into external work-management or reporting systems
Views SQL views used to shape or filter data for downstream consumers. Notes Free-text history attached to leads and contacts, replicated for a full timeline
External files (Parquet/CSV/JSON) Files DuckDB queries in place without loading, common as a sync interchange format. Products Line items attached to leads, used to sync sold products into billing
Attached databases Additional database files or external systems attached into one session for cross-source queries. Tags Segmentation labels mapped to lists or filters in downstream tools
Database files Single-file .duckdb databases that jobs read and write directly on disk or object storage. Users Rep records used to resolve ownership when syncing assignments
What ships with DuckDB ⇄ Nutshell

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever DuckDB or Nutshell 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 Nutshell record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your DuckDB ⇄ Nutshell 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 Nutshell.

How the DuckDB and Nutshell 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

Nutshell

Integration surface
JSON-RPC API over HTTPS; a newer REST API is also offered
Authentication
HTTP Basic with account email and API key
Change detection
webhook subscriptions for record events, with polling as fallback
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
subject to the platform's API rate limits
How it works

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the DuckDB and Nutshell 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 ⇄ Nutshell
    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 Nutshell
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

DuckDB and Nutshell 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.

SOC 2 type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
CSA STAR
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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