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Google Sheets to TiDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Google Sheets 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 Google Sheets and TiDB

Mirror Google Sheets'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 Google Sheets 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 Sheets (tabs), Rows, Ranges, Named ranges from Google Sheets 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 Google Sheets, so the tool and the database never disagree.

Common use cases

  • Prototype an integration by syncing a sheet before committing to a database schema.
  • Give ops and finance teams an editable spreadsheet view of CRM or database records, with edits written back to the source.
  • Stream row-level changes to a warehouse or Kafka via CDC for near-real-time analytics
  • Serve mixed transactional and analytical workloads on synced data using TiFlash columnar replicas

React to changes as they happen

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

One integration pattern for the whole stack

Every synced tool looks the same from the database, so each new integration is configuration, not a new codebase.

Read Google Sheets with a query

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

What you can sync between Google Sheets 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.

Google Sheets objects TiDB objects
Sheets (tabs) Individual worksheets, typically mapped one-to-one to a synced table. Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system.
Rows Treated as records; a header row usually defines field names. Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient.
Ranges Addressed in A1 notation for batched reads and writes. Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows.
Named ranges Stable references that keep sync mappings valid when the grid moves. Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client.
Cell values Untyped by default, so syncs handle type coercion for dates and numbers. Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC.
Spreadsheets The file-level container a sync connects to, identified by spreadsheet ID. Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward.
What ships with Google Sheets ⇄ TiDB

Connect Google Sheets and TiDB for flexible, real-time data sync.

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Google Sheets 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 Google Sheets or TiDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Google Sheets and TiDB.

How the Google Sheets and TiDB connectors work

Google Sheets

Integration surface
REST API (Google Sheets API), with file-level change signals available through the Drive API
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 (user consent) or Google service accounts
Change detection
Polling; the Sheets API has no cell-level webhooks, and Drive push notifications only signal file-level changes
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to per-minute read and write quotas per project and per user, so large syncs are batched.

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 Google Sheets 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 Google Sheets 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
    Google Sheets connected
    TiDB connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Google Sheets 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 · Google Sheets ⇄ 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
    Google Sheets TiDB
    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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