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Elasticsearch to Postgres Heroku integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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 Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku

Keep Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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 Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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

  • Feed enriched customer records into an index used for vector or hybrid search in AI applications.
  • Sync CRM accounts and contacts into an Elasticsearch index to power internal search across customer records.
  • Reflect billing and subscription records into the app database so product logic reads local rows
  • Expose CRM objects as Postgres tables the Heroku application can query and join directly

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 Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku, so each workload runs on the engine that suits it.

Migration with zero-downtime cutover

When one database is replacing the other, sync both directions during the transition and switch traffic when ready, without a freeze window.

What you can sync between Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku

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.

Elasticsearch objects Postgres Heroku objects
Aliases Stable read/write names that let a sync cut over between index versions without downtime. Follower Databases Heroku-managed read replicas usable as low-impact sync sources.
Data streams Append-only targets for time-series or event data pushed from source systems. Tables Standard Postgres tables; the primary two-way sync target for app data.
Ingest pipelines Server-side transforms applied to documents as a sync writes them. Views Read-side projections exposed to outbound syncs.
Index templates Reusable settings and mappings applied automatically to new indices a sync creates. Materialized Views Precomputed result sets synced outward on refresh.
Indices Target containers for synced records; each holds a table-like collection of JSON documents. Schemas Namespaces that scope which tables a sync reads and writes.
Documents The unit of sync; JSON records created, updated, and deleted by _id. Primary and Unique Keys Match keys for idempotent upserts from connected systems.
What ships with Elasticsearch ⇄ Postgres Heroku

Connect Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Elasticsearch–Postgres Heroku connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Elasticsearch or Postgres Heroku instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Elasticsearch or Postgres Heroku 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 Elasticsearch or Postgres Heroku record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Elasticsearch ⇄ Postgres Heroku sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku.

How the Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku connectors work

Elasticsearch

Integration surface
REST API (JSON over HTTP)
Authentication
API keys or basic authentication; Elastic Cloud also issues service account tokens
Change detection
Polling on timestamp or sequence fields; Elasticsearch does not expose a native change feed or webhooks
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No fixed request quota; throughput is bounded by cluster sizing, thread pools, and bulk queue capacity

Postgres Heroku

Integration surface
SQL wire protocol (standard PostgreSQL)
Authentication
Database credentials from the Heroku DATABASE_URL config var; SSL required
Change detection
Trigger-based capture or polling in most configurations; log-based logical replication availability depends on plan and Heroku's managed server settings
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
No API rate limits; connection counts and performance are bounded by the Heroku Postgres plan
How it works

How to connect Elasticsearch to Postgres Heroku — 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 Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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
    Elasticsearch connected
    Postgres Heroku connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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 · Elasticsearch ⇄ Postgres Heroku
    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
    Elasticsearch Postgres Heroku
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Elasticsearch and Postgres Heroku 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
→ SECURITY WITH BENEFITS

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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