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MotherDuck to Starburst Enterprise integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise 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 MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise

Keep tables consistent across MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise, for a migration, a multi-warehouse stack, or a dataset two platforms both need.

Companies end up with two warehouses for practical reasons: a migration in progress, teams that standardized on different platforms, an acquisition, or tools that only connect to one of them. The result is the same dataset maintained twice, with duplicated pipelines and numbers that almost match.

Stacksync syncs tables between MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise continuously, in either or both directions. Rows changed on one platform appear on the other within seconds, with schema and type mapping handled, so both warehouses answer questions with the same data.

Common use cases

  • Share curated, synced datasets with other teams through read-only database shares
  • Land CRM and operational database records in MotherDuck so a small team gets warehouse-style analytics without cluster management
  • Read federated views that join warehouse, lake, and database tables, then sync the result into operational tools like a CRM
  • Expose Iceberg or Hive lake tables to sync jobs through one SQL endpoint without moving the data first

Migration without a big bang

When one platform is replacing the other, keep tables mirrored while workloads move over gradually, and cut over with nothing to backfill.

Serve tools that only connect to one platform

Mirror the datasets a BI tool, notebook, or application needs onto the platform it can actually reach.

Shared datasets across teams

Where different teams run different warehouses, sync the curated tables both rely on so their metrics agree by construction.

What you can sync between MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise

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.

MotherDuck objects Starburst Enterprise objects
Tables The main landing target for synced records and source for analysis. Schemas Namespaces within a catalog, mirroring the underlying source's databases or schemas.
Views Modeled projections used as outbound sync sources. Tables Queryable relations; writes pass through to sources whose connectors support them.
Database Shares Read-only copies of a database shared with other users or teams. Views Engine-level SQL views used to shape federated data before syncing it out.
Attached Local DuckDB Databases Local files attached alongside cloud databases for hybrid queries. Materialized views Precomputed results that make repeated sync reads cheaper.
Databases Cloud-hosted DuckDB databases that scope a sync's reads and writes. Columns Typed per the Trino type system, mapped from each source's native types.
Schemas Namespaces within a database used to organize synced tables. Catalogs Each catalog maps to a connector (Iceberg, Hive, PostgreSQL, and others) exposing an external source.
What ships with MotherDuck ⇄ Starburst Enterprise

Connect MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every MotherDuck–Starburst Enterprise connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in MotherDuck or Starburst Enterprise instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever MotherDuck or Starburst Enterprise 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 MotherDuck or Starburst Enterprise record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your MotherDuck ⇄ Starburst Enterprise sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise.

How the MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise connectors work

MotherDuck

Integration surface
SQL through DuckDB clients and drivers using a MotherDuck (md:) connection
Authentication
Access token created in MotherDuck (Settings > General > Create Token), pasted into Stacksync; database name and schema configurable if not using defaults
Change detection
Polling; no log-based CDC or webhook surface is exposed
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Subject to the platform's compute and concurrency limits rather than per-request API rate limits
MotherDuck setup guide

Starburst Enterprise

Integration surface
ANSI SQL over JDBC/ODBC drivers and the Trino client REST protocol
Authentication
Deployment-dependent: username/password, LDAP, OAuth 2.0, or Kerberos
Change detection
Query-based polling; Starburst is a query engine and exposes no change log of its own
Capabilities
read · write
Rate limits
Throughput is governed by cluster sizing and resource groups rather than API quotas
How it works

How to connect MotherDuck to Starburst Enterprise — 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 MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise 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
    MotherDuck connected
    Starburst Enterprise connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise 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 · MotherDuck ⇄ Starburst Enterprise
    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
    MotherDuck Starburst Enterprise
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
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FAQ

MotherDuck and Starburst Enterprise 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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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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