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SugarCRM to TiDB integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep SugarCRM 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 SugarCRM and TiDB

Treat SugarCRM like part of your database: its records live in TiDB 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 TiDB, where it can be queried and joined like everything else.

Stacksync mirrors Accounts, Contacts, Leads, Opportunities from SugarCRM into Tables, Views, Columns, Indexes in TiDB with real-time, bi-directional sync. Read CRM records with plain queries; write updates from your application and they appear in SugarCRM 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

  • Two-way sync between SugarCRM and an ERP so account, quote, and order data match in both systems
  • Replicate Sugar modules into Postgres so RevOps can query CRM data with SQL and drive internal tools
  • Serve mixed transactional and analytical workloads on synced data using TiFlash columnar replicas
  • Two-way sync between TiDB tables and SaaS tools so operational edits made in either system converge

Product events onto CRM records

Signup, usage, or lifecycle changes written to TiDB sync onto the matching records in SugarCRM, giving go-to-market teams live product context.

Internal tools without API code

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

Trigger workflows from CRM changes

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

What you can sync between SugarCRM 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.

SugarCRM objects TiDB objects
Cases Support tickets kept aligned with help desk tools. Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows.
Calls and Meetings Activity records used for engagement reporting. Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client.
Tasks Follow-ups attached to records across modules. Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC.
Campaigns Marketing efforts tied back to leads and opportunities. Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward.
Custom modules Modules built with Module Builder get the same REST endpoints as stock ones. Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system.
Accounts Company records, the usual join key against ERP customer masters. Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient.
What ships with SugarCRM ⇄ TiDB

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

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

Real-time

Two-way sync

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

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever SugarCRM 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 SugarCRM or TiDB record.

Observability

Monitoring

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

Trading partners

EDI

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

How the SugarCRM and TiDB connectors work

SugarCRM

Integration surface
REST API with module-based endpoints
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 access and refresh tokens issued by the Sugar instance
Change detection
Polling on date_modified; server-side web logic hooks can push record events to external URLs
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Limits depend on the hosting model; on-premise instances are constrained by server capacity rather than fixed quotas

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

    Choose tables

    Pick the SugarCRM 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 · SugarCRM ⇄ 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
    SugarCRM TiDB
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

SugarCRM and TiDB 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
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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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