Plaid to PlanetScale Integration

How Datrise loads Plaid into PlanetScale

Datrise syncs Plaid's accounts, transactions, balances, items, institutions, and account holders into PlanetScale as a typed table per source entity. Flexible or custom fields land in JSON columns, and timestamps such as created, updated, and status changes are typed as DATETIME.

Sync is incremental: Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, so re-runs update only what changed. Vitess sharding by tenant or entity key for very large tables. PlanetScale disallows foreign-key constraints by default, so Datrise models relationships by stable id columns rather than enforced FKs.

Ideal for horizontally scalable MySQL apps on Vitess.

Endpoints

Plaid: Bank account connectivity and transaction feeds.

PlanetScale: Serverless MySQL platform with safe schema workflows.

How Plaid entities map to PlanetScale

Plaid entity	PlanetScale object	Notes
accounts	`plaid_accounts`	id PK · custom fields → JSON columns
transactions	`plaid_transactions`	id PK · linked to plaid_accounts
balances	`plaid_balances`	id PK · linked to plaid_accounts
items	`plaid_items`	id PK · linked to plaid_accounts

FAQ

How does Datrise handle Plaid's custom fields in PlanetScale?

Flexible values are stored as JSON columns, so new fields don't require a migration; strongly-typed fields — dates, numbers, and references — are promoted to native PlanetScale types.

How does the Plaid to PlanetScale sync stay up to date?

It runs incrementally — Datrise uses a watermark on updated-at, applied with INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE.

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